HEALTHY OFFICE SPACE
After two Vipassana courses last year, Aneesh Reddy, Co-founder and CEO of Singapore-based software-as-a-service (Saas) customer engagement firm Capillary Technologies, realised meditation’s powerful impact on him. The practice de-cluttered his mind and improved his ability to focus on the present and think clearly. “I am probably at my best in terms of inner peace and mental health,” says Reddy.
With stress and loneliness becoming an integral part of the Covid-19 world, Reddy wanted to promote the meditation technique within the organisation. As an experiment, in December 2020, Capillary announced an 11-day Vipassana leave. Anyone who intends to participate in a Vipassana course can avail an 11-day leave — over and above the mandated annual leave. “Annual leave get over during the yearly vacation. Anyone hardly takes off for themselves,” says Reddy.
“Dalmia’s employee wellbeing programme now caters over 30 per cent to emotional health”
AJIT MENON
Group HR head, Dalmia Bharat Group
The pandemic ushered in the realisation that being healthy was beyond being physically fit — it is a state of complete physical, mental, social and financial well-being. This led companies to look at health holistically and expand their offerings. Earlier, employees’ health benefits included offerings related to physical health, but now emotional and social health have become integral as
