Corporations all over America are integrating the powerful health and personal growth tools of Tai Chi & Qigong into the fabric of the workplace. Why? Because Tai Chi & Qigong can save companies big money, is very applicable to the office, can lessen workplace injury, reduce stress, and boost performance.
One of corporate America's highest unnecessary production costs is in lost productivity due to employee stress. U.S. businesses are losing $300 billion per year due to stress (that's over $7,500 per employee, per year), which may be why the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) has declared stress a workplace hazard.
Companies and corporations are increasingly turning to Tai Chi & Qigong as a solution to stress. Companies that have offered Tai Chi & Qigong to either their employees, clients, or executive staffs include Sprint, Hallmark, Inc., Black and Veatch Corp., Associated Wholesale Grocers, BMA (Financial), and Columbia Hospitals, to name a few.
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The potential savings in employee health, productivity, and attitude will more than make up for the minimal investment of the half hour of pay. Your company can encourage employees to take up healthful habits that in turn promote decreased absenteeism, increased productivity, and diminished disciplinary problems.
Tai Chi is rapidly becoming the most popular wellness program for many companies. Isn't it great that companies are realizing that what is good for the employee is good for the company's profits as well?
What about creativity?
Tai Chi & Qigong encourages us to let go of old ways and patterns while opening us to new, better ways of doing things. Tai Chi & Qigong’s meditative quality enables practitioners to become more creative as they let go of being locked into old patterns. Tai Chi & Qigong is about letting go of everything, mentally, emotionally, and physically which requires releasing prejudices and preconceptions, making you clearer and more open to new possibilities and potential. Tai Chi & Qigong can help employees think outside the box, opening them up to fresh innovative approaches and may boost profits more than anything you could begin to measure.
