Corporate wellbeing - who's responsible?

Many wellbeing initiatives focus on access — health screenings, gym passes, yoga classes, or counselling. These wellness “perks” may be valuable but they miss the immediacy.

When deadlines pile up and emotions run high, people need tools they can use in the moment, not just after hours.

That’s where body-first approaches come in. They give employees instant ways to reset stress, restore focus, and stay productive — right where they are. Furthermore, too often the "wellness perks" that are meant to help, burden the very people who need help most: those already overwhelmed.

You don’t need another checkbox program. What you need are practical strategies that work in the moment, for people under real pressure. Many employees lack the agency to manage their mental health effectively. This stems from a shortage of education and practice of essential tools to increase capacity, agency and resilience.

To create a healthier workplace, organizations must empower their workforce with resources and training that enable them to navigate challenges in real-time. We need strategies that work in the moment — practical, body-first adjustments that reset the system, restore calm, and allow clarity to return.

These figures below show that the current model of corporate wellbeing has more potential yet to be explored. Besides rising medical costs, rising rates of chronic health diseases, missed days off work, physical pain and discomfort, overwhelm and mental distress, being present but unwell is often more costly than being absent.