Regular eye examinations can reduce major medical costs through the early detection of eye disease before becoming serious. Glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness, afflicts thousands of Americans over the age of 40, and many are not even aware that they have it. Vision care reduces errors and accidents. Vision care improves productivity and employee morale. Vision care benefits enhance the recruitment of new employees by offering a competitive advantage in the employer's group benefit package.
Vision care fits in well with flexible benefit plans.
Nearly every work function depends upon good vision, particularly in high tech environments where intense concentration is demanded. Seeing well is working well. Good vision promotes higher productivity and reduces errors, delays and absenteeism. Filling the vision care gap in an existing benefits program helps to keep employee vision problems from becoming business problems. Good vision is just good business.