Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

Are your wellness programs treating the symptom while ignoring the disease?

20 Mar 2026 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:31

Ashish Kothari presents data showing 72% of employee well-being comes from the job, team, and organization, not individual factors. Most wellness programs treat burnout as a personal problem when 97% of it stems from systemic workplace demands. Real change requires fixing how organizations work, not just offering EAPs.

Chapters

When we look at the data, like almost 72% of well-being is actually at the job team organization level, not individual. And 97% of burnout is actually because of demands and enablers, which are not individual-based. And so when we offer EAP programs for those who are struggling or wellness programs for those to increase wellness and put all the burden on the individual, but actually don't address the core ways of working, why are we surprised that we don't move the needle, right?