America's workforce is carrying a growing health burden, and it shows up in productivity, retention, safety, and benefit costs. You don't have to guess what's happening inside your organization - you can measure it, confidentially, in days.
Obesity, chronic disease, sleep deprivation, and unmanaged stress are now common in working-age adults. This is happening whether leadership wants to acknowledge it or not - it's already true in the underlying population. The only question is what your employee base looks like today.
40.3%
U.S. adult obesity prevalence
CDC NHANES, Aug 2021 – Aug 2023
76.4%
U.S. adults with 1+ chronic conditions
CDC BRFSS, 2023
51.4%
U.S. adults with multiple chronic conditions
CDC BRFSS, 2023
47.7%
Hypertension prevalence in U.S. adults
CDC NHANES, Aug 2021 – Aug 2023
30–46%
Adults not getting enough sleep (by state)
CDC sleep surveillance, 2022
90%
Of U.S. health care spend tied to chronic & mental health conditions
CDC
Get a baseline. Deploy Sanguine's diagnostic survey to your employees this month and see the true risk profile of your workforce.
Health problems don't stay personal - they become operational
When health slips, organizations experience a predictable chain reaction. Independent research estimates U.S. employers lose hundreds of billions annually to illness-related lost productivity, separate from medical spend.
Absenteeism rises
Missed days climb and coverage costs go up.
Presenteeism spreads
People show up but output quietly drops.
Errors & incidents increase
Especially in safety-sensitive roles.
Turnover rises
Hiring becomes a treadmill.
Benefit costs inflate
Renewals get uglier each cycle.
Leadership flies blind
Without measurement, you're reacting - not preventing.
Seeing more missed days, more "checked-out" performance, or more claims? Do the survey first, then decide what to fix.
An aggregated, employer-facing view of what employees are experiencing - without exposing any individual.
Prevalence of pain and ergonomic risk, including impact on focus and performance
Sleep, energy, nutrition, and preventive-care gaps
Stress and burnout frequency, plus comfort using confidential resources
Absenteeism and presenteeism indicators, including self-reported effectiveness loss
Program-interest signals - what employees would actually use if it were free and confidential
Executive summary with risk-category breakdown and recommended next steps
See exactly what's happening in your workforce. Deploy the confidential diagnostic and receive an executive-ready report with aggregated risk insights and recommended next steps.
The worst time to discover your workforce is at risk is after a serious incident, when a key person burns out and quits, or right before insurance renewals. The best time is now - while you can still intervene early.
If you heard your car making a strange noise, you wouldn't wait until it dies on the highway.
If smoke alarms started chirping, you wouldn't ignore them until you smell smoke.
If your bank account showed an unexplained leak, you'd run the numbers and stop it.
Run the diagnostic now, see what's true in your workforce, then decide what to fix. Be proactive in protecting your most valuable asset: your people.
Sources: [1][3] CDC, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Aug 2021 – Aug 2023. [2] CDC, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 2023. [4] CDC sleep surveillance, 2022 state estimates. [5] CDC, "Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Diseases." [6][7] Independent research on U.S. employer productivity loss from illness, separate from medical spend.