/ -- In India, organizations are under immense pressure to thrive in constantly changing internal environment and rapidly evolving market situations. Thus, it is no surprise that workplace wellness is increasingly being featured as part of strategic initiatives in the corporate agenda. Hence, there is a growing need to study and improve wellness at workplaces
Lifestyle diseases have made their way into the workplace. Productivity in corporates also takes a hit because of the poor lifestyle choices of employees. Indians spend more than 53 hours a week at work and that's not the only worrying statistics. 33% of Indians, over the age of 30 are suffering from one or more lifestyle diseases. 1 in 5 young adults in India has hypertension. Diabetes prevalence in India has increased by 64% over the last 25 years. Indian adults living with obesity is set to jump to around 5% by 2025 from 3.7% in 2014.
Although there are some existing global frameworks, most of which just provide a conceptual view of workplace wellness. Lack of a structured, research-based framework that can positively impact employee wellbeing and productivity, is a challenge faced by organizations today. Furthermore, the availability of benchmarks, to ensure the most comprehensive and valid comparisons in the domain of workplace wellness, continues to remain a struggle. These collectively make Workplace Wellness a widely spoken off, but an occasionally addressed problem.
To create awareness on the same, Great Place to Work India and MediBuddy have launched India's first and the largest study to identify 'India's Best Workplaces in Health and Wellness' with Shaheen Bhatt, Author of 'I have never been (Un) happier'.
Over the past 30 years, Great Place to Work has helped organizations build and sustain a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture. Every year, its research reveals the key trends impacting employee experience at the workplace and helps the People Function Leaders, devise a winning people strategy. Their study on the Best Workplaces in India, over the last 12 years has identified that organizations that are able to provide a psychologically and emotionally healthy work environment to its employees, record significantly higher brand advocacy, retention rate, discretionary effort and employee motivation, as compared to other organizations. Great Place to Work has an unparalleled eco-system to study health and wellness at workplaces that can service organisations with insights to combat side effects of workplace stress faced by employees.
Mr Prasenjit Bhattacharya, CEO, The Great Place to Work Institute, said, "When individuals are not able to cope, they are prone to anxiety and depression. The cost is too high, both in economic terms, and in human terms. We understand the external world, but not how to cope with it. How can we manage our mind, body and intellect to maximise our potential in the midst of this rapid change? Wellness is the ability to do this. By far, Wellness is the number one challenge for people working in our Organizations. We all have the collective responsibility of helping people deal with the challenge which is, in a large measure, created by us. 'India's Best Workplaces In Health And Wellness' is one attempt in this direction. MediBuddy is a pioneer in this endeavour. We hope, all organizations and other stakeholders join in creating a movement to make India a Healthy Place to Work. I would like to congratulate and thank the passionate team which is behind this initiative."
MediBuddy is the enterprise world's platform of choice, for cashless digital healthcare. The online healthcare platform has relentlessly worked to entail the focus on employee health & wellness as the key to overall well-being and growth. In their endeavour, over 1.7 million users who use the MediBuddy app have received top-notch healthcare services. MediBuddy has partnered with 500+ leading organizations across sectors - IT/ITeS, BFSI, Manufacturing, Telecoms, and many others - pan India. The team has successfully performed over 1 million preventive health screenings across 700+ cities nationally.
Commenting on the partnership Mr Prashant Jhaveri, CEO, MediBuddy, says, "Our association and involvement in coming up with India's Best Workplaces in Health And Wellness is part of our constant endeavour to keep the focus on health as the key to well being and growth - be it an individual or a corporate entity. What motivates us is the direct impact that we create in making the lives we touch, healthier and happier."
Objectives of the study:
To lead the change of bringing 'Employee Wellbeing' at the centre stage of building a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture. To identify and recognize the best organizations in the country as 'India's Best Workplaces in Health and Wellness'
To provide a Workplace Wellness Indexthat serves as the benchmark for India Inc. to get actionable inputs for both leaders and organizations to create an effective wellness program that fosters a healthy and high-performance workplace culture.
To provide a Health Quotient as an objective way to determine how a corporate measures among its industry peers in terms of addressing the health, healthcare needs of its employees based on deep experience and big data sets MediBuddy has evolved.
To create an ecosystem that can be leveraged by organizations to learn and share from each other
How can you undertake this study?
To participate in "India's Best Workplaces in Health and Wellness", Register at: https://www.greatplacetowork.in/wellbeing/
About Great Place to Work
Great Place to Work is the global authority in creating, assessing and identifying the Best Workplaces world over. Every year, more than 10,000 organizations from over 60 countries partner with Great Place to Work Institute for assessment, benchmarking and planning actions to strengthen their workplace culture. Great Place to Work is the 'Gold Standard' organizations aspire to achieve. In India, more than 1000 organizations partner Great Place to Work Institute to create and sustain High-Trust, High-Performance cultures.
About MediBuddy:
MediBuddy is the enterprise world's cashless digital healthcare platform of choice. Testimony to that - 1.7 million MediBuddy app downloads and a Google Play rating of 4.3. With cashless access to outpatient transactions delivered in over 1100+ cities, MediBuddy has helped more than 5 million corporate employees make informed healthcare decisions. With diverse offerings for all stakeholders of the healthcare industry through a 'phygital' approach, MediBuddy makes discovering, accessing, utilizing and monitoring healthcare seamless, real-time and virtually paperless, encapsulating user experience right from discovery to service delivery.
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