Employee wellness as a clinching factor
The Hindu
Fourteen companies adjudged “Healthy Workplaces” in the latest edition of a corporate evaluation programme run by a health NGO
From usually being just a parameter in ascertaining “Best Places to Work”, well-being is increasingly being seen as a whole category in itself while marking companies for employee-friendliness.
Contributing to this trend is ‘Healthy Workplaces’, an exercise initiated in 2012 by a non-profit to rate companies on how well they weave concern for employee wellness — both of the body and the mind — into workaday business concerns.
Arogya World, a voluntary organisation promoting health education, puts out a list of 14 companies that convincingly tipped the balance in favour of wellness, in the latest edition of this programme.
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