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Schindler India launches an additional employee assistance program
MUMBAI: Head-quartered in Mumbai, Schindler India's growth is evident with its service presence across 50 major cities across the country. Schindler India is the leading provider of escalators and elevators and a 100% owned subsidiary of Schindler Group. Today, almost everyone in India is talking about only one thing that’s COVID-19 and as the number of cases and fatalities has intensely risen in recent weeks, keeping in mind the employee’s physical and emotional well-being, Schindler India reinforces the access and use of its Employee Assistance Program called ‘Schindler Cares’ which was started in 2016.
Schindler Cares partners with Santulan | http://santulan.co.in/ and its expert team of psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioural researchers and ~100 Partner Counselors to provide proactive guidance to deal with life’s expected and unexpected events, as the employees and their family’s physical and emotional well-being is crucial to Company in these trying times #CoronaVirus. Santulan is administering the EAP services for Schindler India employees and their eligible dependents across the country. The employees can reach out to the counselling team for telephonic, face to face or e-counselling sessions. All the costs involved for Schindler Cares have been prepaid by the company, with utmost assurance that all issues are handled confidentially.
Providing an avenue of support that respects Schindler India’s employees' privacy, the EAP service is absolutely confidential. No identifying information will be given to or shared with anyone in the organization. The EAP provides professional assistance for a wide range of issues, including:
• Couple and marital relationship issues
• Personal and emotional difficulties
• Death, grief and bereavement issues
• Family matters / parenting concerns
• Stress, anxiety and depression
• Work-related issues
• Work and personal / family balance
• Alcohol and drug misuse
• Crisis counselling
• Managing life's changes
• Personal Legal and Financial Stressors
And many more…
Schindler India and South Asia chief people officer Shubha Arora says, “As a leader in employee engagement we recognise the link between happiness, wellbeing and fulfilment for achieving productivity at the workplace. Schindler India values the wellbeing of its employees and we understand that preventive measures need to be taken to fight this current outbreak of COVID-19.
Our employees and their families through our Employee Assistance Program, ‘Schindler Cares’ can access wellbeing services confidentially. We are pleased to have partnered with Santulan, and their team of experts to help provide guidance and counselling to deal with life’s expected and unexpected events”.
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The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
