Insights
The evidence behind workplace wellbeing.
Research-grounded writing and interactive tools on the cost of poor mental health, attrition, burnout and measurement, built for Indian employers. No hype, just numbers you can check and use.
Cost & ROI
Workforce economics · 7 min
The real cost of poor employee mental health in India
The cost of poor employee mental health in India is already on your books, hidden inside payroll, attrition and quiet underperformance. Here is how to see it, and size it.
24 June 2026
ROI · 7 min
Wellbeing ROI: the model your CFO will actually accept
Most wellbeing business cases fall apart under a CFO's questions. Here is an honest model built on avoided loss, defensible benchmarks, and assumptions you can defend in a finance review.
19 June 2026
Buyer's guide · 7 min
EAP vs a modern wellbeing platform: an honest comparison
EAP vs wellbeing platform is the wrong question when it is framed as products. The real question is reactive helpline against proactive whole-person care. Here is how to tell them apart, and what to ask any vendor.
13 June 2026
Workplace mental health · 7 min
Why fewer than 5% of employees ever use their EAP
Most Employee Assistance Programmes report single-digit usage, and the reasons are built into the design. Here is why your EAP utilisation rate stays low, and what proactive support looks like instead.
9 June 2026
Buyer's guide · 7 min
Build vs buy: should you run employee wellbeing in-house or with a partner?
A clear-eyed look at the build vs buy employee wellbeing decision for Indian employers: clinical safety, 24/7 cover, anonymity, engagement, breadth and true cost, and when each path actually makes sense.
1 June 2026
Attrition & retention
Retention · 7 min
What attrition actually costs you, and how to cut it
The cost of employee attrition in India runs far past the obvious recruitment fee. Here is how to size the real number, and the two levers that move it most.
3 June 2026
People analytics · 7 min
Predicting attrition before it happens: the leading indicators
Resignations cluster, but the signal bends weeks earlier. How anonymised mood, engagement, and sleep data lets you read team-level weather and act before notice periods, without surveilling any single person.
28 May 2026
Onboarding · 7 min
The first-90-days problem: why new joiners leave
New joiner attrition in the first 90 days is often the costliest churn an employer carries. Here is why the window is so fragile, and how structured wellbeing check-ins change the outcome.
22 May 2026
Burnout & health
Burnout · 6 min
Is your team burning out? A two-minute check
Burnout is an occupational phenomenon, not a personal failing. Learn the three dimensions WHO defines, how to spot them at team level, and run a quick team burnout assessment.
16 May 2026
Sleep science · 7 min
Sleep predicts burnout better than workload does
Prospective research keeps finding the same thing: disturbed sleep forecasts later burnout and depression, often more reliably than how heavy people say their workload is. Here is why that matters for Indian employers.
10 May 2026
Leadership · 7 min
The manager effect: your biggest mental-health lever
A large multi-country survey found that, for working adults, a manager shapes mental health about as much as a partner does, and more than a doctor. The good news: that lever is trainable, not innate.
5 May 2026
Productivity · 7 min
Presenteeism: the productivity leak you cannot see
Presenteeism cost is the invisible drain of employees who show up but cannot fully function. Often it costs more than absence, because it is constant. Here is how to estimate it.
29 April 2026
Financial wellness · 7 min
Financial stress is a workplace mental-health issue
Money worry behaves like chronic anxiety: it captures attention, wrecks sleep, and quietly drives presenteeism. Why financial literacy belongs inside a wellbeing programme, not lost in the benefits stack.
7 June 2026
Sleep science · 7 min
Shift work and mental health: the BPO, healthcare and manufacturing reality
Rotating and night shifts disrupt sleep, mood and safety. Here is why Indian BPO, healthcare and manufacturing workforces live inside shift-work sleep disorder, and what employers can actually do about it.
5 June 2026
Leadership & culture
Leadership · 7 min
Psychological safety: the most-cited idea in team performance, explained
Psychological safety at work is the belief you can speak up, admit mistakes and ask for help without punishment. Research consistently finds it among the strongest team-level predictors of performance, and it is trainable.
23 June 2026
Leadership · 7 min
Layoffs done humanely: protecting the people who leave and the people who stay
Layoffs and employee wellbeing are inseparable. How you treat the people who leave shapes the trust, focus and health of everyone who stays. A practical, humane playbook for Indian employers.
21 June 2026
Leadership · 7 min
Manager mental-health training that actually changes behaviour
Most management training teaches process. The kind that moves mental-health outcomes teaches three skills: spotting distress early, holding a conversation well, and knowing where the manager's job ends.
19 June 2026
Benefit design · 7 min
Designing an employee wellbeing benefit people actually use
Most wellbeing benefits sit unused because they ask for effort before they offer value. Here are the employee wellbeing benefit design principles that turn a quiet line item into something people reach for.
17 June 2026
Compliance
Compliance · 7 min
DPDP Act 2023 and employee wellbeing data: what HR must know
A plain guide to handling DPDP Act employee wellbeing data: consent, purpose limitation, data principal rights, anonymisation and cohort reporting, and the questions to put to any vendor before you sign.
23 April 2026
Compliance · 7 min
Employer duty of care and mental health: the picture in India
What the employer duty of care for mental health looks like in India today, how the Mental Healthcare Act 2017 and POSH reframed obligations, and why proactive support has become a governance expectation.
15 June 2026
Policy · 7 min
Building a workplace mental health policy: what to put in it
A practical guide to writing a workplace mental health policy for India: scope, confidentiality, manager duties, leave and accommodation, crisis escalation, and how to keep it a living document.
11 June 2026
Measurement
People analytics · 7 min
What is a Workforce Wellbeing Index, and how do you build one?
A workforce wellbeing index is an anonymised, measurement-based read on the few signals that predict whether people stay and thrive. Here is how it is built, and how leaders act on it.
27 June 2026
Clinical · 7 min
Measurement-based care: bringing PHQ-9 and GAD-7 to the workplace
Clinicians improve outcomes by tracking validated scores over time and adjusting to the data. The same discipline, anonymised and aggregated, turns workplace wellbeing from vibes into evidence.
26 June 2026
Privacy · 7 min
Reporting wellbeing without surveillance: the cohort-of-10 rule
Anonymised employee wellbeing reporting only works if no individual can be re-identified. The cohort-of-10 rule, anonymity, and DPDP-aligned design draw a clear line between insight and surveillance.
25 June 2026