Are your employees constantly complaining of headaches or booking off sick, getting the after-lunch slumps or simply in a bad mood at work? Believe it or not, this may be due to the fact that they are not drinking sufficient water at work during the day.
The human body is around 70% water, and if this balance is affected by not drinking sufficient water, it can result in dehydration, which can affect one’s health negatively.
Dehydration can cause headaches, dizziness, fatigue, fuzzy brains, kidney stones, joint problems, a lack of energy and much more. Being dehydrated means that the blood becomes thick and this makes it more difficult for your heart to pump oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.
Dehydration also makes it harder to urinate and flush waste products and toxins from the body via sweat and the colon. This can lead to allergies and various illnesses resulting in your employees having to take time off of work and piling up the sick leave.
Providing your personnel with easy access to chilled, fresh, toxin-free drinking water throughout the day means that they can replenish the water that they lose throughout the day via sweating, urination and other normal bodily functions.
Well-hydrated individuals have more energy, eat better, get sick less often, their brain works at optimal capacity, and they are generally in a far better mood. All of this means that their productivity is heightened, and this means that your bottom line will be positively affected.
There are two kinds of water cooler: a bottled water cooler and a mains or point-of-use (POU) water cooler. Bottled water coolers are fine for domestic use or for small offices, but larger offices will do better with a mains water cooler which is plumbed directly into your main water supply and can therefore supply fresh, chilled drinking water virtually non-stop.
