Worker Productivity | Nutrition Evaluation Measures

Worker productivity measures for nutrition^1-2

Healthier employees are less likely to call in sick. Companies can sometimes assess sick day use as the most direct measure to determine whether health programs are increasing worker productivity.

Baseline

• Determine the average number of sick leave days per employee over the previous 12 months for health conditions affected by dietary behavior such as type 2 diabetes
  • This measure may be less useful if there has been a large increase or decrease in numbers of employees over the past 12 months
• Determine the costs for worker absenteeism including costs of replacement workers, costs in training replacement workers, and loss and delay in productivity
• Determine time employees spend during working hours participating in nutrition related worksite programs

Process

• Re-assess the average number of sick days per employee at the first follow-up evaluation
• Periodic repeats of other baseline measures

Outcome

• Assess changes in the average number of sick days per employee in repeated follow-up evaluations
• Assess changes in time employees spend during working hours participating in nutrition related worksite programs
• Assess changes in costs from baseline