Sports at company facilities and reseurc on sports about its impact on health

With the help of the developments that strated by industrialization, the time that we spend in offices have increased substantially and offices are the places that we spend most of our day nowadays. Long working hours and immobility at workplace cause serious health issues for individuals and affect the society negatively at the long term. Sports has become a balancing power between work and social life in the changing and developing world. Sports has become a medium of sharing for people from different cultures, races and religion.Aim of this research is to help the white collar workers ? the majority of our population ? balance their social and professional lifes, acknowledge the potential health problems caused by long working hours and minimize the money spent to recover from these problems. It also aims to show the positive effects of sports activities in in-house fitness centers at workplace on performance at work. The effects of sports on physical and cognitual performance are anaylzed for this purpose.Surveys are used to understand the employee?s perceptions of fitness at workplace, their expectations and the motives that effect attendance. The reason to quit is also investigated for regular attendars. Also, the frequency of getting ill and not being able to work is compared for regular attendars and rest of the employees.Key Words: sports,the health effects of sports,business and social life,business performance,mental and physical performance.