HDFC ERGO joins hands with Great Place to Work® India to drive the movement of Making India a Healthy Place to Work FOR ALL

Mumbai : HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, a leading general insurance company in India has partnered with Great Place to Work® India, a part of the global authority on workplace culture, to drive the movement of ‘Making India a Healthy Place to Work FOR ALL.

The world is grappling with the impact on one’s physical, social, economic, and mental health making employee well-being one of the top priorities for every leader and organization today in the post-pandemic era. To support business leaders, and navigate the unknown, HDFC ERGO and Great Place to Work®, India, have forged a partnership to enable an ecosystem that inspires proactive action on national policy, corporate best practices, and normalizing conversations around mental health.

As a part of this initiative, HDFC ERGO and Great Place to Work® India, recently organized ‘The Wellness Confluence’, with the central theme: Championing Wellbeing – Making Health a Habit.

Some of the learnings that resonated with leaders present at the summit were:

1. Gain insights into new technology tools and resources to help corporates learn to navigate through the priorities of holistic well being 
2. Understand the key levers for creating a culture of holistic well-being through research-based insight-driven frameworks and learning from senior industry leaders who have successfully built these cultures.
3. A positive multiplier impact of key culture indicators like retention, discretionary effort, and employee advocacy.

Commenting on this initiative, Anuj Tyagi, Deputy Managing Director, HDFC ERGO, said, “As one of the leading health insurers of India, we are committed to provide financial stability to our fellow citizens, during their medical emergencies. Now as a responsible insurer that has built its success story by serving India over the last 20 years, we would like to extend this ambit and promote a movement of healthy workspaces to the Indian employees. With wellness becoming a key differentiator in the workplace, we identify it as an area we need to channel our efforts. Making India a Healthy Place to Work FOR ALL in partnership with Great Place to Work® India is our major stride in that direction. The Wellness Confluence lays the foundation to bring this larger vision into reality, where business executives, industry leaders, and experts come together to exchange their learnings and experiences and work towards promoting health and well-being at the workplace.”

Yeshasvini Ramaswamy, CEO, Great Place to Work® India, said “There is an urgent need for India Inc to accelerate the adoption of new practices that are technology enabled in their workplace that looks at an inclusive approach to support all aspects of wellbeing, be it physical, emotional, financial or environmental.  Our partnership with HDFC ERGO is a positive and affirmative step in the direction of promoting a culture of consciousness around employee wellbeing. We remain committed to our efforts to encourage companies to actively seek and report recognition of India’s best workplaces for employee wellness. Great Place to Work, India studies and insights currently cover more than 8.25lakh employee voices and this will only grow in the years to come. I am hopeful that a day will come when companies can report their employee wellbeing index in addition to the regular financial statements as a part of their corporate governance norms in India. The Summit is the start of our movement was a testament to that aspiration.” 

Some of the key speakers at the summit included Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited, Jonty Rhodes, Ex-Cricketer (South Africa), and Coach, Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, Author and filmmaker, Margaret Whitehead, President International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA), and CEOs and Senior Leaders of large to mid-sized Corporates.