GEB recently teamed up with health and wellness disruptor Tictrac, client company DPDHL and HR Grapevine magazine as part of a webinar to discuss the new breed of digital corporate wellness solutions.
The cost for companies to provide medical and healthcare plans to staff continues to outpace inflation in most major economies.
In light of this, our team of experts discussed newer solutions allowing for affordable wellness initiatives in markets where costs historically wouldn’t have made usual wellness ROI calculations work.
They looked at what some companies are doing in wellness, even in those countries with limited or narrow private medical insurance cover, with a focus on how employers can ensure a greater role in engaging employees in health and wellbeing initiatives across many parts of the globe.
There are now digital solutions available that are low cost, fully automated and much more accessible to a mass audience.
These kinds of solutions are set to bring manifold benefits: to employers in terms of improving engagement, managing absence, reducing costs; to employees in terms of relevance to their individual physical and mental wellbeing needs; and also to society at large in terms of helping to tackle some of the biggest global healthcare issues of our time.
Eric Butler, Director of Global Health & Wellbeing at Generali Employee Benefits, commented: “Non-communicable diseases – those things that are connected with lifestyle issues – weren’t the kind of things that our grandparents were worried about. But NCDs are now responsible for around 70% of all deaths globally. 38% of those deaths are people aged 30 – 69 years old. 80% of those ‘premature’ deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.
“Multinational corporations are now getting involved.”
To view the webinar, go to
https://youtu.be/i_dUC0l-y1E