Corporate Health Building (CHB)

Health building represents a new and innovative business strategy aimed to both improve employees’ health as well as saving on expenses for ill/absent employees, ultimately securing overall performance and growth.

We have done an extensive literature review with regards to employee health and elaborated its impact on corporate performance as well as further investigated employee health through an own online-survey.

Our Health Building strategy is created through linking findings to existing literature and scientific recommendations and intended to address the negative impact of increased remote work due to COVID-19 confinements with regards to physical inactivity, lack of exercise, diet behavior on corporate performance (both short- & longterm) through corporate health building.

For Navigation, please see below our Table of Contents. Each Section will be presented in a separate Blog Post:

• Part 1: Introduction and Objective

• Part 2.1: “The New Normal” – How COVID-10 led to a sudden change in working life

• Part 2.2 A review of the current literature: Deriving direct effects of remote working to individual’s health

  • Part 2.2.1: “It has never been easier to be physically inactive” - Data on Physical Activity, Exercise and Sedentariness

  • Part 2.2.2: Diet quality during COVID-19 confinements - Data on dietary behavior

  • Part 2.2.3: “The begin of a back pain pandemic?” - Data on musculoskeletal health and pain

  • Part 2.2.4: Loose Muscle, Gain Fat? - Data on muscle loss and weight gain

• Part 2.3: Some (bad) things take time.. - Remote work and its delayed onset of consequences

  • Part 2.3.1: We all like Maths! - Mathematical Model to understand the development of work-related complaints

• Part 2.4: How are employees affected?

• Part 2.5: How is corporate performance affected?

  • Part 2.5.1: Data on Work-Related Illness and Absence

• Part 3: Own Survey to investigate employee health

• Part 4: What is Corporate Health Building?

• Part 4.1: Who is responsible and qualified for Health Building?

• Part 4.2: How should Health Building be implemented?

A list with all references can be found here