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In response to concerns over health, businesses operate wellness and fitness programs. A physically unfit employee is absent more and is less productive than a fit employee. As a result, many corporations encourage physical fitness by providing financial incentives to smokers to quit, health clubs for employee to exercise, counseling services where workers can receive support for stress or emotional problems, drug tests to discourage drug abuse, and rehabilitation programs for drug addicts and alcoholics. Employers thereby reduce medical costs. Corporations report that with active physical fitness programs in place, their life and health insurance costs on employees are reduced.
Two changes directly relate to the health of workers. One change safeguard the work environment by outlawing smoking; the second warns employees who are exposed to work conditions that could affect their health. The second change has caused firms to adapt equipment to a safe and comfortable work environment.