Corporate Health Wellness Programs

A Step towards a Healthier Consider this case of one Mr. Ramesh who has been known for his skill and talent.  Given his education and his glorious past track record, he was hired by one of the largest companies in the industry with the hope of receiving some great work from him.  As days passed by, it was realized that he succumbed to pressure and was keeping indisposed continually.  Headaches causing low motivation turned into more serious diseases and what it finally culminated into was absenteeism, reduced efficiency at work and eventually losses to the company.

This story, though fictional, has a reference to most companies in today’s stressful environment.  Improper eating habits coupled with less or absolutely no exercising and high amount of anxiety at work has played a spoil sport in the effective operations of the companies as many employees are getting bobbed down by diseases (minor and major).  It has become a cause of worry as the companies have been suffering both on their corporate health wellness count as also their labour efficiency.

Why Corporate Health Wellness?

Given the unabated concern on the wellbeing of the employees, all companies- small or big, have to look at an alternative solution to bring about an effective solution to this impending problem.  And it is not about small numbers; productivity losses because of health issues such as diabetes, migraine headaches, or asthma attacks, have been counting huge all across the globe.

Given the graveness of the situation, the corporate sector has to take the first leap towards providing proper training to its employees on how to keep mentally and physically fit (corporate health wellness, as we call it) and thus fulfill dual objectives for itself –

• Fulfill its social responsibility towards wellness of its employees
• Bring about increased efficiency in the work place (directly or indirectly leading to raised profit numbers)

Such corporate health wellness programmes are the only solution to alleviate the rising health bill of the companies and usher in a generation of healthier and more efficient employees.