Corporate Wellness is Broken, Here's What We Must Do to Fix It

Why Wellness Perks Fail, and What Your Organisation Really Needs to Thrive

By the time a company installs a nap pod, it’s already missed the point.

Across boardrooms, town halls, and HR panels, the term corporate wellness is passed around like a silver bullet, a vague promise of morale, productivity, and reduced burnout. But scratch the surface and you’ll find that most wellness initiatives are ornamental. Yoga classes. Subscriptions to mindfulness apps. The obligatory fruit bowl in the break room. As if a banana at 3 p.m. can undo years of psychological strain and structural dysfunction.

Let’s be clear: companies, from sprawling multinationals to ambitious start-ups, are not failing at wellness because they’re not trying. They’re failing because they don’t understand the problem they’re trying to solve.

This is not a surface-level failure. It is philosophical.