Why wearable tech matters to organisational wellbeing

Abstract

Specialist wearable tech has been used by medical professionals for many years for monitoring patient blood pressure and heart rates, for examples, over extended periods of time. Making a case for investment into health benefits has meant looking for any potential signs of impact on absence rates, before focusing on the value of wellbeing schemes for engagement, for employer branding and in the end, just the importance of doing the “right thing”. New devices are able to track heart rate, breathing, temperature, steps and even body position in case a person has fallen, allowing an emergency message to be sent to a central office in the event of health problems.