Joe Lynam

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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam · A rethink how workplace wellbeing is promoted · 6 Nov 2025 podcast

Only 37% of employees believe that their workplace supports them to engage in activities to main their health and well-being and indeed to prevent future diseases.

That's according to VHI's new Workplace Health Insight Service, which is highlighting the need to rethink how workplace well-being is promoted.

Joining us now to discuss this is Amy Burke, People and Sustainability Officer with VHI.

Good morning, Amy.

Good morning, Tom.

Amy, you surveyed workers across a large number of, shall we say, large companies.

What did you find?

And not putting words into your mouth, but presumably this isn't just better for employees.

Companies shouldn't be doing this just because it's better for employees.

Presumably this is better for their advantages for the companies themselves.

And presumably it's a win-win-win because it's also a win for VHI.

Presumably healthier customers, clients are less likely to avail of medical services and that's better for the company.

OK, and presumably people who are more health conscious, people who are more likely to engage in well-being programmes in the workplace are also more likely to catch other non-lifestyle related issues earlier.

Now, it's all right, even though, OK, a lot of large companies aren't involved in this space and certainly aren't involved as well as they should be, aren't as proactive as they should be.

But many of them will have people, HR directors, people under the HR director who are responsible for this area.

And therefore, they can just tell them, please go ahead and do something.

But if you're a smaller company, Amy.

You don't have somebody who's dedicated to this area.

There's no way you can afford it if you have three or four employees or even if you have 10 or 20 employees.

What could or should smaller companies be thinking about doing?

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