346). Along with the article's assertion that reducing employee stress should be beneficial to both the individual and the company, the article also documents the many problems that can occur due to stress in the workplace. The article espouses, "For employees, chronic exposure to stressful situations such as work overload, poor supervisory support and low input into decision-making have been cross-sectionally and prospectively linked to a range of debilitating health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, immune deficiency disorders and cardiovascular disease" (Noblet, p. 347). Many of these illnesses are debilitating and can be long-term which adds to the company's cost due to employee absence(s) directly affecting the company's bottom line.

Other recent studies concur that; "a worksite health promotion is a highly effective approach to reduce the system-wide demand for healthcare services, since at its core is the notion of prevention and detection -- preventing mortality, morbidity and trauma (injury), and detecting and addressing work- and lifestyle-related health risk factors (Musich et al., 2000; Ozminkowski et al., 2002; Aldana et al., 2005).

Though the programs described in the above articles are different in their...

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