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The Importance of Healthcare and Wellness Devices in Today’s Era

A fit and healthy life has become one of the major concerns of today’s generation. Today, people look forward to following a healthy diet, performing regular workouts and effective exercises, and keeping their mind clean and positive with regular meditation. The healthcare and wellness sector across the world has witnessed a major revolution. Thanks to wellness devices and advanced mobile apps. All these technologies have proven quite useful in helping people follow a healthy lifestyle and maintain their health.

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the medical sector has made our life a whole lot simpler. The technology offers cost-effective healthcare solutions. Moreover, it has opened several new and intriguing fitness opportunities. From tracking your sleep hours to providing smarter homes to people suffering from Parkinson’s disease, IoT has brought incredible evolution in the healthcare sector.

Healthcare and Wellness Devices – The Revolutionized Medical Industry

Being fit is all about a healthy lifestyle. You cut down your consumption on junk food, develop a healthy sleeping pattern, invest your time in meditation and that’s it! Once you start following a healthy routine, you will notice a positive change in your physical and mental health.

However, the busy and hectic work schedule often makes it difficult for people to focus on a healthy routine. With wellness and healthcare devices, you no longer need to remind yourself of the morning meditation or a 20-minute walk. Put on these wellness devices and enjoy a smooth and healthy lifestyle. These devices can help you in many ways. Let’s have at a look at the importance of such gadgets in your daily life.

Maintaining Posture

A slouched posture is often blamed for neck, back, and joint pain. You never realize your habit of sitting or standing in a poor posture until you get severe backache and neck pain. To prevent such issues, you need to have your spine aligned.

Many wellness devices can help improve your posture. You can stick such devices to your back to get alerts whenever your posture slouches. There are many postures maintaining mobile apps that can be used along with the healthcare devices for recording your progress. This way, you can gradually develop the habit of sitting in an upright posture.

Create a Healthier Environment

The environment you live or work in affects your health. The major environmental factors that impact our mental and physical health are indoor air quality, humidity, noise, and temperature. With the wellness wearable devices and mobile apps, you can easily know if all these factors are at optimal levels. With such apps, you can track the air quality, humidity, temperature, and other environmental factors to ensure that everything is in harmony.

Get Peaceful and Healthy Nap

The eight-hour of sleep is crucial for everyone. You need to get a peaceful sleep at night in order to wake up fresh in the morning and be 100% productive the next day. However, not everyone is lucky enough to enjoy a good night’s sleep. Some people end up tossing their heads the entire night. There can be many reasons that affect your night sleep. For example, improper sleeping patterns, too much stress, and medical conditions like insomnia.

With the help of innovative sleep monitoring gadgets, people can enjoy a peaceful sleep at night. These devices track your sleep cycles, heart rate, disturbances when you are asleep, and sleeping duration. This data will be sufficient to monitor your sleeping pattern and change your sleeping habits to improve the quality of your sleep.

Manage Your Stress

The number one cause of chronic health ailments such as heart diseases, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks is stress. Nowadays, a major concern of people is to cope with stress and live a healthy and stress-free life. With workload and technology, the stress in our lives is also growing rapidly.

Unfortunately, not a lot of people have the necessary healthcare tools to manage their stress levels and maintain their health. Many stress detecting devices determine the stress levels by testing the sweat on your palm and fingertips. The electrical activity on your fingertips helps these devices ascertain your current stress levels. You can take certain measures to control the stress such as meditating, listening to music, going for a walk, and taking a short nap.

Conclusion

These were only a few benefits of wellness and healthcare devices in today’s era. Considering the growing competition and workload, these gadgets have become more of a necessity these days. Whether it is a wearable or healthcare device, people need to stay up-to-date with the latest technology to maintain their health.

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Top Wellness Trends to Look For in 2020

We live in a world where more than half of the population finds difficulty in dealing with stress. People are always on the lookout for ways to unwind and free their bodies from stress and fatigue. If sources are to be believed, then the wellness sector will mainly rely on technology and personal experiences in 2020. It would be an understatement to say that the wellness industry is growing at a rapid rate. Check out your social media accounts and you will surely come across some easy meditation poses and exciting workout strategies.

Your mental and spiritual health is as important as your physical health. In fact, the year 2020 will be all about your mental and spiritual health. As mentioned before, people will be focusing on finding the right exercises and diet to live a stress-free life in 2020. In this post, we’ll walk you through some interesting and upcoming wellness trends that every fitness enthusiast should be aware of.

Let’s get started.

Sound Bath Healing

Like meditation and yoga practices, sound healing techniques help individuals to deal with stress and anxiety. Sound bath healing involves peaceful music, crystal bowl ringing, tunes of special instruments, and other such sounds that promote mental health and releases stress. The sound produced by these special instruments triggers specific areas in your brain that promote the feeling of relaxation.

If you are looking for a practice to calm your mind and body, then a sound bath healing therapy can be the ultimate option. The therapy can also be combined with meditation and yoga for better results.

Virtual Wellness

“I don’t get enough time to practice meditation and workouts” will no longer be an excuse in 2020. Self-care will become an important aspect of our lives. The demand for virtual wellness is expected to increase in 2020. People are already embracing wellness kits and equipment that promote self-care without the requirements of training studios and gyms. This trend will help individuals to stay fit without having to hit the gym or fitness places every day.

For example, the meditation apps and fitness journals you find on the internet can be of great use for fitness enthusiasts. You are one search away from the best fitness tips, exercises, and diets that can improve your mental and physical health.

Breathing Apps

As much as breathing is the vital action of a human body, it is often ignored. Ever wondered why breathing is the crucial technique in Yoga and meditation? Even 20 minutes of proper breathing can boost your cognitive skills, calm the stressed mind, and increase your energy levels. The mobile apps make it easier for individuals to focus on their breathing action.

The breathing apps will help you add these 20 minutes of meditation to your daily routine. You can practice it before going to bed or in the morning (before breakfast).

Wellness Retreats

After running errands, it feels amazing to enjoy some me-time. But how do you do that? Lying on your couch and watching the TV will definitely not help in calming your mind and de-stressing your body. That’s why holidays are getting popular in this era. Wellness tourism is increasingly getting more popular across the world. Wellness tourism brings the promise of combating the negative qualities embedded in today’s travel and turning it into an opportunity to maintain and improve our holistic health.

In 2020, people will take more time for themselves by going out on a short trip to a wellness destination. They will likely hit a peaceful location primarily motivated by wellness or participate in wellness experiences while taking any type of trip for leisure or business.

Increasing Demand for CBD Products

Unless you are living under the rock, you might be aware of the recent controversies on the use of CBD (cannabidiol) and hemp products. While some countries have already made the use of CBD legal for medical purposes, other countries still need to embrace this super useful product.

Cannabinoids are not a psychoactive plant. After years of research, scientists have come up with a conclusion that CBD products do not contain THC content. That said, it is a nonpsychoactive ingredient. CBD is especially known for its exceptional healing benefits. The plant contains anti-inflammatory and antioxidant ingredients that promote healthy cell growth, leaves the users with an acne-free skin, and controls inflammation. Moreover, CBD oil and skin-care products can prevent aging symptoms. With countless uses of CBD, this product is expected to witness high demand in 2020.

A Peaceful Sleep

Ladies never compromise on their sleep because it is their secret to flawless and radiant skin. Sleep deprivation not only impact your physical health, but it can affect your mental and spiritual health negatively. Before the wellness industries launched sleep tracking devices, people hired sleep coaches (especially fitness enthusiasts) to track their sleeping hours and ensure that they get enough sleep every day.

The health and wellness sectors have started designing wearable tech gadgets that could be used to track your sleeping hours. Your sleeping routine can be tracked by the wearable tech devices. These devices are likely to be in high demand in 2020 as people are more concerned about their mental and physical health.

Conclusion

The health and wellness industry is growing at a fast pace, as people are realizing the importance of self-care and fitness. That being said, the wellness sector is expected to experience some exciting changes and innovations in 2020.

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Health and Wellness Industry in India – Rs 1.5 Trillion by 2020

With roughly 47% of Indians predicted to get in the elderly stage, it goes without saying that a major portion of India’s population still belongs to youngsters.

In financial year 2014-15, the health and wellness sector in India was estimated at a close Rs 85,000 crore. The health sector in our country is expected to see major growth of 12% in five years. If a recent report by Ficci and EY are to be believed, India can achieve up to Rs 1.5 trillion in 2020.

According to recent reports, the wellness sector in India will drive major growth and sales for Insurance companies. The major economic growth driving factors in India is the increasing ailments, high cost of health care, productive years lost, etc.

With time, the definition and status of the wellness sector have seen a transformation. The societal changes and the latest lifestyle trends have played a crucial role in revolutionizing the wellness industry. Other than that, globalization and the increasing awareness of the individual’s well-being have led to this transformation.

The wellness companies have reacted to these changes by focusing more on curative healthcare, customized healthcare services, and luxury products. Even the healthcare and insurance regulators are taking the necessary steps to support the health and wellness industry. As the Indian government is trying its best to embrace this transformed ecosystem, it is imperative to adapt to the designs (that put an emphasis on wellness offerings and how it can be made accessible to the individuals in the value chain).

Risk Factor

Wellness industries have seen a lot of transformations in the past 25 years. Earlier the focus of people was on the communicable disease but it has now shifted to the non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This shift is led by the unfavourable economic condition, due to which the lifestyle and dietary habits of Indians have changed. As infectious diseases are rapidly spreading throughout the country, India is going through low mortality whereas high morbidity rate. Chronic Non-communicable diseases are most commonly found in older people with age 60 years and above.

The NCDs are responsible for half of the deaths and increasing morbidity rate in India. Our wellness industries are focusing more on preventing and curing these non-communicable ailments. Taking these facts into consideration, the government has introduced National Programs for Prevention of Diabetes, Strokes, Cancer, and Cardiovascular Diseases (NPCDCS). But as these measures have just started, they are expected to take time to cure non-communicable diseases.

Kainos Global’s Take: As the government takes steps to align itself with the ecosystem, it is important to simultaneously address the challenges of design and implementation, which outline the effectiveness of the wellness offerings and the ease with which they are made available to each of the entities in the value chain, to adopt to the shift. Then only will it be possible for all the key stakeholders of the ecosystem to drive the revenue and achieve the Rs 1.5 trillion mark.

(Information extracted from Ficci EY report)

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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Fitness Industry

Artificial Intelligence or AI has come a long way since the advent of Internet and when we had AIM chats with SmarterChild. No matter what your gut feelings are about AI and its usage or how disruptive it is going to be, but you’ve got to admit that it has started entering our lives in a big way. Take the example of Gmail – it now predicts the words that you are going to write in e-mails, Alexa knows which playlists you love the most, Walmart or Amazon will suggest your next shopping cart on the basis of your previous purchases.

There is one industry where AI is quickly sneaking into without making too much of a noise – the fitness industry. AI is taking over businesses and the fitness industry in particular through a behavioural algorithm that can track (and even forecast) health behaviours and repetitive exercise patterns.

Artificial intelligence can help consumers become smarter and healthier using these smart fitness applications, too:

AI-based mobile trainers or coaches can help athletes improve skills and enhance their performances

Now you have wristbands that monitors your real-time biometrics and caloric expenditure

Smart watches that monitor uncommon sleep patterns and test your resting metabolic rate

An AI-based personal assistant within smart running shoes that can measure your stride length and speed

Smart furniture or fitness equipment that intuitively adjusts to your physical positioning and anatomy throughout the day

 Use Cases

Although very new, a few fitness mobile apps can now use your phone’s camera to check your workout form and correct you, almost like a trainer would do in a class or one-on-one setting. Though not all these apps are perfect in predictions, however it’s exciting to imagine the possibilities as it extends to more exercises in the future.

Apart from the fact that most wearables collect only data, but they can do much more for us than just count steps. Apple watch can become a doctor in the near future, detect irregular heartbeats which can lead to a stroke or heart attack. It may also detect signs of diabetes in the not-too-distant future.

Now you have smart shoes which collects information on your runs to help coach you, cheer you on, and remind you when you need to kick it up a notch. Instead of only having data on distance and pace (like with traditional running watches), you’ll also understand how well you did on your run and if your form needs improvement.

Again, sensors on clothing seems to be a trend that we may see more of in the coming years. There are yoga pants which uses information gathered from its technology to help guide your form during yoga practice and help you correct your poses.

There are lot of fitness equipment that adjusts according to your comfort and mode of relaxation. Kainos Global 4D Massage chair is one such smart wellness equipment - The zero-gravity massage chair gives you relaxation from head to toe, and you can choose from 4 different preset massage programs. The chair also has a foot roller function, which is a nice additional feature for those who want an effective foot massage. The built-in waist heater promotes blood circulation and helps improve metabolism. Taller than average, and worried you won’t fit into this chair? The chair comes with extendable footrests for people like you, so everyone in the family can enjoy the relaxation of a massage.

The fitness industry can benefit hugely from Artificial Intelligence. Many time-intensive tasks can be automated with the help of AI — an important consideration for customer service and client on-boarding. Human error which sometimes proves costly can be reduced or partially avoided though AI. This is perhaps more important for human health services than in any other industry.

And it is implied that most of these benefits are associated with potential monetary benefits, too. Fewer errors means less rework. Less human labour spent on repetitive tasks means less overhead and more mental bandwidth to spend elsewhere. What follows is only the beginning for how the fitness industry can put intelligent machines to work.

There’s a lot of technology in fitness already, but the impact that it can have is much greater when we think about adding a personal element to it. AI can do a lot of the heavy lifting that human employees don’t relish. And in other places, these machines complement rather than replace the human touch that likely will always be desirable in this field. We should not view AI as competition to human beings. Technology will always give us helpful information and try to make us better. AI can coach us to be more active and fit,  teach us to improve our diet and help us take more healthy decisions at the end of the day.

Call us to find out how we are using AI to make our fitness equipment more innovative.

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Occupational Stress and Ways to Cope With It

We hear about terms like Wellness and Fitness across the corridors of the business world. Health professionals are not only warning us about wellness of our body, but the corporate boardrooms are also discussing about it. And, employees worry about it every day.

The interest for this subject is not without good cause. A recent study by Harvard researchers who reviewed 36 studies of corporate wellness programs have found out something interesting. The researchers reported that for every dollar large employers spent on wellness programs, they saw company medical costs fall about $3.27. But even beyond that payoff in health, the study found a comparable payoff in productivity: For every dollar spent on wellness programs, the companies’ absenteeism-related costs fell about $2.73 (1). The costs to companies because of stress and ill-health, especially in terms of absenteeism and low productivity, are huge. Why do companies need to look into stress related illnesses? Studies have proved that occupational stress can have a major effect on the bottom-line of company’s performance. So, let’s try to understand more about occupational stress and the ways to overcome it.

Workplace Stress Or Occupational Stress

The corporate wellness industry is evolving on a regular basis and wellness professionals have to stay on top of emerging trends to ensure their employee wellness program continues to advance.  On the other hand, employees also believe that employers must take an active part in reducing the amount of stress in their lives and the workplace is capable of reducing the stress levels from their lives. The advent of mobile technology among other things have made most workers accessible to their offices. This leads to a lot of stress and the employee in turn finds it difficult to create a proper balance between work and personal life, leading to illnesses and decreased life satisfaction.  

Workplace or Occupational stress, a term commonly used in the professional business industry, refers to the ongoing stress an employee experiences due to the responsibilities, conditions, environment, or other work related pressures. There are several types of occupational stress, depending on the individual employee, their job role, the company culture, and many other depending factors. This kind of stress accounts for much of the physical illness, substance abuse, and family problems experienced by thousands of workers of all classes, specially white and blue-collared workers. Any stressful working conditions have been linked to low productivity, absenteeism, and increased rates of accidents on and off the job.

Workplace stress has substantial health consequences on employees, and this range from the relatively benign—more colds and flu—to the more serious, like heart disease and metabolic syndrome. However, now-a-day, stress at work is so common, getting a low-stress job is very difficult or almost impossible for many people. A more realistic choice would be to simply adopt more effective strategies to reduce stress at work and create a proper work life balance.

With the advent of new technologies many jobs have become more fragmented and job tasks have been narrowed, leaving workers more disconnected from the final product. This process of “deskilling” has created increased levels of boredom, making work less challenging and less satisfying for many workers. Offices are becoming factories with rows of workers connected to computers that are capable of monitoring every key punched. The knowledge that every minute of one’s working day is being recorded has intensified the pressure of the job, which, in turn, has led to an increased rate of cardiovascular health problems/heart disease among office and clerical workers.

Coping with Occupational Stress

There are several ways employees can treat, cope with, and ward off occupational success. By maintaining a diligent, reasonable work pace, employees can prevent procrastination and consistently finish the tasks they begin. Additionally, employees should place importance on things like punctuality, regularity, time management, honesty, diligence, and discipline, as these characteristics help promote a positive, professional attitude that’s often recognized and rewarded by upper management personnel. But the most important of these all is to create a proper work life balance, regular exercises and positive thoughts. If the stress related to work is making you depressed try various physio-wellness exercises.

We at Kainos Global have created various physio-wellness programs for corporate houses and their employees. These physio-wellness sessions are based on Oriental Thermal Healing. Our certified healing practitioners teach you the best way to deal with work-related stress. Productivity through Wellness (PTW) is a Corporate Wellness Program and Solution by Kainos Global for corporate and businesses of all types and sizes. Under the PTW project, Kainos Global sets up Corporate Physio-Wellness Centers, within the work space of Corporate and Businesses who wish to avail preventive health and wellness benefits for their employees and increase their productivity at work at the same time.

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This blog is in continuation to our previous blog on Corporate Wellness in India titled “Corporate Health & Wellness Scenario in India”. In our previous blog, we had highlighted the state of Corporate Wellness Programs in India and also discussed about the steps that Corporates need to take to create a successful wellness program. Here we will discuss about the importance of health and wellness regime and also highlight our Physio-Wellness programmes.

In today’s busy world, a corporate employee is overwhelming stressed, juggling between personal and professional life all the time. Even during vacations, we are busy either with our work or our family. And in between all these, we forget our own health and fitness completely. While we may get time to hit the gym for physical fitness but mental health which is equally important takes a toll. And, just hitting the gym alone doesn’t solve the problem. We rarely get time to relax and de-stress our mind, body and soul together. You need a holistic wellness regime that can take care of your mind and body as well. But for a typical corporate employee, whose day starts at 8 o clock in the morning and sometimes ends at 10 PM in the evening such compact fitness regimes are out of the equation.  Productivity Through Wellness (PTW) is a Corporate Wellness Program by Kainos Global, designed exclusively for corporates and business houses, keeping in mind a typical corporate employee.

Through this program, we work with corporate houses to set up Physio-Wellness centers within their premises. Corporates can avail preventive health and wellness benefits for their employees through such programs. This will keep employees healthy and also increase their productivity at work at the same time. As a first step, Kainos Global performs a Wellness Audit of the interested organisation. This helps Kainos decide the required customisations in terms of size, equipment, protocol and personnel. We then offer an effective Wellness center program to ensure that your employees remain motivated and healthy. Kainos Global has qualified equipment, expertise and personnel to help your employees get started on the wellness journey and see the results themselves. Kainos Global associates with organisations and individuals alike to deliver such programs.

Our Associates

GOVERNMENT & PSUs

We run the PTW initiative in government organisations after signing a legal contract. We usually set up the Wellness center post liaison between the Kainos PTW Team and the respective Employee Health and Human Resources departments of Government Bodies, PSUs, Government Sector Offices, etc. A Wellness Audit of the interested institutions helps Kainos decide the required customisations in terms of size, equipment, protocol and personnel.

SOHOs, SMEs & CORPORATES

The PTW initiative is business-size agnostic and can be applied successfully to all possible sizes of business. We set up Physio-Wellness Centers, within the workspace of Corporates and Businesses who wish to avail preventive health and wellness benefits for their employees. We offer an effective wellness center program to ensure that your employees remain motivated and healthy.

DOCTORS, AAYUSH PRACTITIONERS, & OTHER HEALTHCARE SETTINGS

While the Kainos Global PTW team is adept at handling preventive health and wellness programs holistically, individuals and institutions connected to healthcare can also participate in the PTW project as solution providers and partners to scale up operations and add value to the initiative.

Our value proposition lies in the fact that we provide a 360o  fitness evaluation to your employees, which includes not only physical fitness, but mental fitness and a balanced nutritional diet also. We keep a strict watch on your employees health and fitness without interfering their daily routine. All our health and wellness  programs are tailormade and we will first evaluate your employees’ health status before delivering any service. Your employees will receive consultation and requisite therapies absolutely FREE OF COST. In case they wish to purchase an equipment for their homes – the same is provided to them at a handsome corporate discount. Our main motto is to ensure that your employees give up their sedentary lifestyle. Along with an organisation, we also generally try to incentivise our health and wellness programs for employees. Your employees just need to relax and destress themselves while we do the rest!

All our centers are established and run under the able supervision of well trained and qualified wellness professionals. As we mentioned earlier, these centers can be created for organisations and individuals alike, irrespective of the size. You just need a 400 square feet area (minimum) to set up a Kainos Corporate Wellness center within your premises and we will take care of the rest.

Case Study: Very recently, Kainos Global has set up a Physio-Wellness center in a multi-facility, healthcare organisation called D-Care Healthcare in Delhi, India. The center serves dual purposes for the healthcare facility – it acts as a Physiotherapy center for its patients and also as a Wellness center for its employees.

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ORZUV – Kainos Global Bangalore Center

Kainos Global has started it’s Physio-Wellness Store & Therapy Center in Whitefield, Bangalore. We’ve named the Center as “Orzuv Physio-Wellness Store & Therapy Center”. Experts and practitioners of several non-invasive healing sciences and techniques form the core thought of the Kainos Physio-Wellness Protocol. Orzuv, in Kashmiri, means ‘Wellness of the Soul’ and true to its name – the Orzuv Physio-Wellness Store & Therapy Center will offer Health & Wellness therapies and Healing practices from across the country and beyond.

The therapies and healing practices on offer at Orzuv are as follows – Physiotherapy, Kinesiology, Chiropractic, Acupressure, Yoga, Oriental Thermal Healing, Pranic Healing, Crystal Healing, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Guided Meditation, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Health Food, Chakra Therapy, Theta Healing, Sound Therapy, Reiki and Emotional Freedom Techniques.

Our Processes

Assessment:

We begin with a holistic assessment of the therapy-seeker’s mind, body and soul. This is done through stratified data acquisition formats which have been designed after factoring in various aspects like body types, mental & spiritual state, wellness index, pain index, lifestyle, medical condition, illnesses and ailments.

Prescription:

The assessment is followed by prescription of a therapy protocol, chosen from among one or more available healing methods. Usually, this prescription is delivered along with the assessment sheet and includes the chronology and duration of the treatment along with a detailed and informative session calendar.

Adherence:

Immediately after the prescription, the Team, along with the technology in place, starts to work on the most crucial aspect of the project – Adherence.

1. A master-therapist is appointed for each client with the purpose of motivation and  communication. The assessment of the therapy-seeker allows him/her to understand the thought process, spirit, likes and dislikes of the therapy-seeker, which at a later stage becomes instrumental in encouraging adherence.

2. There’s a continuous session reminder and progress indication system which notifies the therapy seeker and the therapist of an upcoming session appointment and the improvement/deterioration in the well-being of the therapy seeker.

3. Additionally, there are periodic health talks and related events hosted at Orzuv for the clients to attend and benefit from.

4. Above all, it is the enticing natural ambience at Orzuv, which is our biggest strength to ensure adherence.

PROCESS DELIVERY:

All therapy sessions are delivered at Orzuv in designated areas within the premises. About, 1/3rd of the therapists are in-house and are well-equipped and trained on the Physio-Wellness protocol. The therapists on contract are regularly briefed on the progress of the therapy-seeker in terms of improvement and key change indicators.

The entire process is wrapped in a simple yet effective ‘Physio-Wellness’ technological framework with multiple interfaces (Mobile and Web Application) for the Client, Therapist and Admin, to ensure that process delivery is of the highest possible scale and quality.

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Corporate Wellness in India

Corporate health and wellness programs across the world are been reinvented and re-modeled as lot of employees today are suffering from various chronic diseases as a result of their 9 to 5 jobs. Mostly employees from IT companies who are techies spend a lot of time in the office due to the kind of work they do, and this leads to various chronic illnesses such as back pain, obesity, hypertension, stress, etc. Corporate wellness programs encourage and support a holistic well-being of employees by creating an organisational culture of health. Health and wellness programs are started by companies because employers want their employees to stay healthy and in turn they know it would improve the productivity and bottom-line. Employees also feel motivated as they need to spend less, both in terms of money and time for their well-being. If your mind and body is healthy you inevitably become happy and productive.

Like many other western countries, India too is facing an epidemic of chronic diseases and conditions like obesity, hypertension, asthma, diabetes and heart diseases. Now-a-days we get to hear a lot of young people suffering from these chronic illnesses. According to a report by Assocham, lack of robust corporate wellness programs are costing Indian organizations up to $20 billion each year. Many chronic diseases are preventable and employers need to implement a holistic approach to corporate wellness programs in an influential way to educate employees on the importance of creating healthy habits and the benefits of sticking to wellness goals. To engage employees to wellness programs, employers should expand their approach from one size fits all, to a corporate wellness program that is tailored to the individual. Although, off late organisations have started to realise that a stress-free workforce is happy and more productive than an overworked workforce that puts its health on the line yet the number is still low in India.

The problem lies in developing a robust wellness program for employees. This is what is lacking in present day Corporate India. We do have a lot of wellness programs that have been introduced by employers in urban India, mostly MNCs, but there is a lack of momentum towards creating a holistic approach for well-being of employees. Again, the Assocham study highlights that for every rupee that is spent on employee wellness, employers get a saving of Rs.132.33 as savings on absenteeism costs, and Rs. 6.62 back as reduced health care costs, which in fact is a very striking number. The research also throws light on an interesting fact that 83 per cent of respondents are willing to contribute a percentage of their salary in company sponsored wellness program.

Creating a robust wellness program in your organisation depends on your budget, individual employees, work culture and environment but we think it’s the need of the day for every organisation. It is imperative to have such a program in place which will keep your employees motivated and productive. Employers should provide incentives to individual employees who engage in such physio-wellness programs so it becomes a motivating factor for employees in general; which in turn is a win-win situation for both employer and employees.

If you are an organisation than Kainos Global has a perfect solution for you. We have exact tailor-made, customized solutions for organisations of all sizes - from a conglomerate to a small-sized organization. Productivity through Wellness (PTW) is a Corporate Wellness Program and Solution by Kainos Global for corporates and businesses of all types and sizes. Under the PTW project, Kainos Global sets up Corporate Physio-Wellness Centers, within the workspace of Corporates and Businesses who wish to avail preventive health and wellness benefits for their employees and increase their productivity at work at the same time.

A Wellness Audit of the interested institutions helps Kainos Global to decide on the required customisations in terms of size, equipment, protocol and personnel. Our products are imported directly from South Korea and we have a panel of internationally trained physiotherapists who can train and guide according to international standards.

To know more about our current projects, modules, solutions and protocols contact us here.

References:

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