Welcome to the Wellthy era of corporate wellness

By Wellthy founder, Taryn Gill

Let’s be honest: whether you’re an entrepreneur or corporate exec, the workspace has changed. These days, the buzzwords are flexibility, balance, mental health, and yes — wellness. And I don’t just mean kombucha mocktails on a Friday…

Investing in employee wellness is now a full-blown business strategy for smart SA companies who want to attract and retain the best talent, while making sure that performance stays high - without the burnout factor.

 Wellness Is holistic, and its personal

Once upon a time, “corporate wellness” meant maybe someone would come in and teach you how to stretch at your desk once a year. Today, it’s evolved into a holistic, strategic powerhouse that covers holistic health support, enhancing business skills, physical wellbeing, social connection, career growth, and emotional resilience. At Wellthy, we go one step further to look at each team player individually, giving bio-individual support that improves performance.

So whether its Gen X, Gen Z or Millennials (who arguably, now make up the majority of the workforce) humans want to work for companies that value them, not just squeeze productivity out of them until they burn out and quit via Slack. And it may be hard to believe, but some folks will take a lower salary if it means they get genuine support for their mental, physical, and emotional health. That’s not a trend — that’s a movement.

The Wellthy Way

Here's what companies and entrepreneurial leaders are experiencing when their teams get wellthy (yes, pun intended):

• Lower absenteeism (healthy people show up)

• Higher productivity & profit (balanced people perform better)

• Improved morale (happy people don’t bring drama to the Monday meeting)

• Better retention (good people who feel valued, stay)

• Stronger employer brand (wellness is a flex in the talent market)

Building Wellthy principles like resilience and better habits in your workforce can result in significant Return on Investment (ROI) and Return on Objectives (ROO). And if the warm fuzzies aren’t convincing enough, here’s something that might sway the C-suite: tax benefits.

South African companies can qualify for tax deductions by investing in approved wellness programs - particularly if those programs form part of skills development initiatives. Building a Wellthy coaching module into your plans to upskill, means your team wins, and you win the tax rebates under the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI). Certain initiatives also help organizations earn skills development points for their B-BBEE scorecard.

Where wellness meets ambition

We design bespoke wellness frameworks that go beyond platitudes and poster campaigns. We’re talking about where wellness meets ambition:

• a strategic coaching system with a unique blend of business and health coaching, that integrates work performance with your own personal wellness

• helping professionals build better habits, sharpen focus and hit goals

• Nutrition and movement integration for hybrid teams

• Burnout recovery retreats

• Leadership wellness

• Practical hacks so your team can show up well, live well, work well

 It is your time to invest in coaching, upskilling and support for your team, to create a culture of wellness that turns your company into a magnet for thriving, driven, healthy humans.

And yes, it’s all delivered with our South African flavour. X