Bengaluru, 15th December 2021: Arogya World, a non-profit organization working to prevent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through health education and lifestyle change, today announced its 2021 Healthy Workplaces in India. At its flagship annual Healthy Workplace Conference and Awards event, the organization recognized 14 new Healthy Workplaces for championing workplace health, promoting a healthy lifestyle among employees and addressing NCD prevention and mental wellbeing. Over the years, Arogya World has recognized 159 companies as Healthy Workplaces, spanning over 3.3 million employees.
The 2021 Healthy Workplace companies are:
- Optum
- Bayer
- Nexusmalls
- JLL
- Conneqt Business Solutions
- Roche
- WNS
- BIAL
- Xiaomi
- DanskeIT
- Jaipur Rugs
- SMEC
- ABP
- redBus
The Healthy Workplace program requires companies to show in rigorous assessments, that they meet both physical health criteria (like healthy eating, tobacco cessation and physical activity), and also mental health criteria(introduced by Arogya World for the first time in 2020 in response to COVID)Leadership engagement is key.
Arogya World also recognized two exemplary companies P&G and Cummins, for attaining the Platinum level, the highest level of the Healthy Workplace program, and for demonstrating a data-driven culture of health. This invitation-only effort recognizes these companies for quantitatively tracking employee health and showing improvements in health metrics over time. This brings the total number of Platinum Healthy Workplaces to 35 in the Arogya community.