In a survey of 250 business leaders in London, managers in finance came out on top when valuing fitness, with 58% of decision makers seeing employee fitness as ‘very important’.

Nearly 80% of them claim they had taken measures to improve the physical health of their employees.

Retail was way off second place, with 28% of business leaders regarding the fitness of their workers as a top priority.

A long way down the list was construction, with just 16% of managers seeing fitness on the building site as ‘very important’.

Surprisingly, the survey also found that London’s business leaders saw their physical fitness and mental wellbeing improve over the pandemic.

Six out of ten said their exercise levels had increased, while a minority (29%) said working from home had negatively impacted the mental health of their organisation.

The survey is part of the ‘Fit to Deliver,’ campaign being carried out by JogPost, a leaflet distribution company whose team carry out their work by jogging.

The campaign is being supported by Mike Hind MBE, crowned ‘Best Personal Trainer in the UK’ four times.