Endorphins are one of the primary feel-good peptides which react with the brain’s opiate receptors, creating an increased resistance to pain. Endorphins are released during exercise, and many large company offices have gyms in which employees can get a workout on their break, during lunch, or before or after their job responsibilities. These gyms are great because they promote health and wellness, and they cause higher job satisfaction, at least within those who actually use them. The nicer and larger the gym, the more likely your employees are to hang out there and indulge in a little endorphin revelry. Exercise can feel so good that some people have thought themselves truly addicted to the endorphins created by exercise. This may or may not be the case in their circumstance, but some people who are in a great deal of physical pain due to disease, wounds, or hardcore healing find it helpful to scratch different areas of their bodies, creating the same endorphin rush as opiates, exercise, and initial endorphin rush during traumatic shock to the body during an accident or injury. This scratching is a temporary version of the effect that exercise creates, but it is still used pretty often when healing.
Using a company fitness gym at your place of work reduces the likelihood that any of your employees will resort to alcoholism or drug abuse. With such a positive, feel-good inducing tool at their hands, that the company supports and encourages use of, and that reduces the cost of employee turnover and employee assistance programs, many businesses may find it advisable to develop an effective fitness gym in which their employees can relax, stretch, work out and weight train. In addition to the direct effects a gym would have on individual employees, even if an employee is not using your gym, they are still benefitting from the emotional stability, physical stamina, and high energy productivity of athletic coworkers around them. This encourages non-athletic employees to not only stop abusing drugs or alcohol, but it also encourages them to start using the gym themselves and attain higher job satisfaction and personal contentment. Call Mediscreen today to ask us about our onsite drug and alcohol testing services for your business: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
