In financial institutions like Stanbic Bank, Ecobank, Standard chartered the Bank tellers have a very tiresome job that institutes them to stay in one location seated for several hours serving customers the all day which affects on their nutrition levels. Whenever Banks extend their working hours and days, the tellers are affected because they are expected to balance their books of accounts.
However Banks face nutritional challenges and these are as follows;
There are very short lunch breaks for instance most of the bank tellers are constricted to very short lunch breaks usually one hour or half an hour. In such a short period the employees are not able to have a well planned balanced diet thus affecting on their productivity levels.
Bank tellers are not subjected to exercise after digestion since most tellers are in one location and position that is to say they sit for very long hours without doing some exercise like walking around the premises due to the workload they are subjected to.
Malnutrition also affects productivity levels within a workplace for instance the bank tellers who work in Stanbic Bank in Garden city mall in Kampala are next to food courts and joints which provide fast foods liked ribs and French fries have high level of calories which make people become obese when they over eat them therefore such employees who work in Stanbic are prone to diseases like Obesity which will increase on the health costs for the bank.
Most of the employees are ignorant about their nutrition in most cases where the tellers assume that consuming such snacks is of a high class without knowing that such foods are harmful to their health by making them more prone to diseases hence affecting their productivity levels.
Another challenge the Banks face a problem of places around the city especially along Kampala road where the restaurants food safety and hygiene are cautioned, this increase on the costs on Food