In this Quick Paws conversation, Airvet CEO Brandon Werber sat down with Connor Sweeney, VP of People and Talent at Form Health, to unpack wellness and how HR leaders and employers are rethinking what it should look like. “I feel like wellness as a topic has significantly evolved over the last few years,” said Sweeney. “For me personally, it’s the steps that it takes to feel balanced and have what you need to be successful. If you lined up ten HR leaders and asked, the answers would be dramatically different.”
From Perks to Strategy
In the past, wellness was often related to “perks” or even thought of as non-essentials. Benefits like a gym membership or a pedometer challenge were considered wellness twenty years ago but today, leading companies are embedding wellness into leadership behaviors, policies, and daily workflows. “It has to be infused in the culture in all the little things that we do,” Werber added. For HR teams, the challenge is meeting employees where they are, whether that means supporting mental health days, watching for signs of burn-out, or even access to unique family benefits.
Benefit that Reflect Real Life
For Werber, that also means recognizing the role pets play in employees’ lives. “70% of the workplace are pet families,” he said. “There are literally twice as many people with pets in the house than there are with kids under 18 in the house, and yet for decades, little has been done to support them.” That gap is exactly what Airvet is working to close, giving employers a way to show up for employees with 24/7 veterinary support. As Sweeney put it,” the future of wellness is about meeting employees where they are”, and increasingly, that includes their pets.
Watch the full conversation with Brandon and Connor below to hear more on the future of workplace wellness:
