EBRS can save your operation money in four areas:

1. By increased productivity through reduced presenteeism*.
2. By increasing retention rates through helping your employees lead pain free lives, at work and at home.
3. Over the long term, by reducing direct or 'compensation' costs for back, neck, and carpal tunnel chronic pain.
4. By reducing time away from work while seeing outside health care providers.

*Presenteeism is a term used to describe people who suffer from chronic pain but still work every day. These are often your best employees.

People suffering from chronic pain are not as productive as healthy people. In 1999, the Employers Health Coalition of Tampa, Florida, analyzed 17 diseases and found that lost productivity from presenteeism was 7.5 times greater than productivity loss from absenteeism. For specific problems, like neck or back pain, the ratio was more than 15 to 1.

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has pegged the annual cost of presenteeism in the U.S. alone at $150 billion/year in lost productivity.

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