Many companies have become aware of the real issue for their employees to regularly engage in physical activity. Both physical and mental, sport has its benefits, such as making them more productive.
According to one study, 80% of the French population is sedentary! More and more companies are advising their employees to undertake a regular activity. Some works councils go so far as to take over sports subscriptions in the gym for their employees!
There is a real challenge and entrepreneurs who are concerned about the health of their teams and their organizations have realized that they have everything to gain by encouraging their staff to play sports. They know that investing in physical activities is really profitable: a sports employee is an employee who produces more. Indeed, to make sport with very positive impacts on the life of the company:
1 – The staff is healthier.
2 – The rate of absenteeism at work decreases.
3 – The motivation to do more for more results is reinforced.
Beyond the well-known values of sport (developing team spirit, taking on a challenge to succeed, achieving performance …), a regular practice can bring more by playing a big role in maintaining overall good company health. To follow a discipline allows to develop one’s capacity of work and constitutes by the same a major asset for a beneficial prolongation of a professional career. Some prefer a free practice in a spirit of self-fitness that explains the success of sports halls. Others prefer tailor-made accompaniment and are oriented towards sports coaches who will advise them and ensure them the best program, adapted to their practice, morphology, goals and above all their motivation! That’s what the best coaches are offering today.
And does your company offer you a sporting activity on your working time? Does it cover some or all of the costs associated with this activity?
At Ineo-Sense we decided to sponsor and promote access to a sport that I particularly like, the Squash that requires combativeness, anticipation, technique … In this context, the Ineo-Sense team participates to the European Company Sport Games. This year the Games took place at Riccione in Italy and our team finished 5th, eliminated in quarterfinal by AIRBUS. Rendezvous in June 2017 at GENT in Belgium with the aim of a medal …