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‘Only 41 per cent of health orgs offer chronic care’: Truworth Wellness ’26 report
BENGALURU: Truworth Wellness has launched The Great Wellbeing Shift: India’s Corporate Health Study 2026, a benchmark survey that exposes the structural and measurement gaps shaping workforce health across India Inc. The report draws on inputs from more than 300 organisations and maps governance, ownership, digital adoption, chronic care readiness, segmentation and women’s wellbeing.
The study shows that 83 per cent of firms now operate structured or integrated wellbeing frameworks, signalling a shift from scattered HR initiatives to enterprise-wide systems. Governance has strengthened, with 62 per cent assigning ownership to the CHRO and 10 per cent elevating it to the CEO or board, reflecting growing recognition that wellbeing is a business priority.
Preventive and mental health support have become widespread, with 83 per cent offering counselling or EAP services and 81 per cent providing annual health checks. Digital adoption is rising fast, with 66 per cent using wellbeing platforms and 49 per cent offering virtual care. Family wellbeing and psychological safety programmes are also gaining traction.
Yet chronic care remains the sector’s weakest link. Only 41 per cent of organisations offer structured chronic disease management, despite rising lifestyle-related risks. Personalisation is improving, with half using demographic segmentation, but only 14 per cent deploy advanced AI tools and 4 per cent still run one-size-fits-all programmes.
Women’s wellbeing has become a priority, with 55 per cent expanding services beyond maternity and 19 per cent offering full-spectrum women’s health ecosystems, including menopause support and career-life integration.
Fragmentation continues to undermine impact, with firms juggling multiple vendors and disjointed user experiences. Capacity constraints affect 71 per cent of organisations, low value perception affects 52 per cent and cultural resistance affects 46 per cent.
Measurement is still uneven. Although 35 per cent use integrated ROI and VOI dashboards, only 12 per cent calculate financial ROI and just 11 per cent use predictive analytics to track outcomes.
Truworth Wellness founder and executive chairman Rajesh Mundra said organisations must replace isolated programmes with cohesive, outcome-led ecosystems. Co-founder and CEO Rohit Chohan said the study confirms what HR leaders already know: corporate wellness in India remains fragmented and under-measured.
The report offers CHROs, boards and rewards leaders a rare panoramic view of India’s wellbeing maturity and the structural shifts needed to make corporate health predictive, personalised and measurable.
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OpenAI hires Nitin Bawankule as head of enterprise sales, India
Former AWS, Google and Disney+ Hotstar leader to drive AI adoption at scale
MUMBAI: OpenAI has appointed Nitin Bawankule as head of enterprise sales for India, strengthening its leadership bench as it deepens its push into one of the world’s fastest-growing AI markets.
Bawankule, who will join in mid-May, brings more than two decades of experience across cloud, media, and digital ecosystems. Most recently, he served at Amazon Web Services, where he led multiple high-growth verticals and helped accelerate enterprise adoption of cloud and AI solutions in India.
Announcing the move, OpenAI head of enterprise sales, India Nitin Bawankule said he is looking forward to helping organisations transition from “isolated AI pilots to company-wide transformation” and embedding AI into everyday workflows to unlock productivity and better decision-making.
Before AWS, Bawankule held senior leadership roles at The Walt Disney Company, where he led ad sales for Disney+ Hotstar and television networks, driving revenue growth across major sporting and entertainment properties. He also spent over eight years at Google, including a stint as country director for Google Cloud in India.
His appointment comes at a time when Indian enterprises are rapidly scaling AI adoption, moving beyond experimentation to integrating AI into core business functions. OpenAI’s decision to bring in a seasoned enterprise leader signals its intent to capture this opportunity and build deeper partnerships across industries.
With a strong track record in navigating major technology shifts, Bawankule is expected to play a key role in translating AI’s promise into practical, business-ready solutions for Indian companies.
As the race to operationalise AI gathers pace, OpenAI’s latest hire suggests it is gearing up not just to participate, but to lead from the front in India’s enterprise AI story.
