Healthy Place to Work, a Dublin-based tech business, aims to expand into Asia within the next year.
“We’ve created a framework and standard so organisations can certify themselves as being healthy places to work. They can turn around to potential employees and show them that not only will it not damage their health, it’ll help them to work healthier,” Ryan told the Business Post.“We found the marketplace was getting health and wellbeing wrong. There were lots of box-ticking exercises out there that were really superficial.
“We were working with one client where they had staff who were happy with the pay and had bought into the mission of the organisation, but the problem was they were burnt out. They were sacrificing themselves, so the organisation had to take that data and reset how it operated,” Ryan said. He said that by spreading the business internationally from an early stage, he has been able to gather insights into what to expect from clients closer to home. Ryan held an event in Mexico that he was expecting to be attended mostly HR professionals representing the businesses present. Instead, they were almost all doctors working as chief medical officers at those organisations.