S-leap beneFIT

Travelling by the morning bus to the campus, I have always been a witness to some people continuing their night’s slumber on their seats, till they reach their destination. I have often wondered how people fall asleep in the bus with so much of light all around and all kinds of noises – from the blaring horns of other vehicles to the ones screaming for a way on the roads. While I have never got answer to satiate my curiosity, it has nevertheless been fun (no pun intended). There are ones who sit and sleep with almost Buddha-like ability to hold themselves straight; there are others who are swaying like tall eucalyptus trees sway on a windy day; while there are still others who have not forgotten their kinder-garden lessons & dutifully put their heads-down on the back-rest of the seat in front on them and snore (silently) in bliss. Finally, there is the ‘freefall’ category, those who keep tumbling on others and wake-up as surprised as the one on whom they have cascaded, to go back to another round of deep slumber & another round of tumbling all over again.


All of them however have one thing in common. They all seem to have an uncanny sense of destination. When they are sleeping, it always appears to me that they would have to be shaken-out of the bus once we reach the campus. But every time, I am proven wrong and all of them wake-up just at the right time and hurry-out of the bus, before I can.

Amongst all this slumber tales, when I look at many other passing-by public transport buses with passengers stuffed like onions, spilling-over each other, jostling, shoving, pushing, either trying to hold themselves to their seats or hanging like broken electric poles, I think folks like us have really earned the comfort to be able to sleep in the bus.

Benefits are always engaging when they serve the real need of the people. Good transport systems arranged by organizations for their employees in cities like Bangalore or other huge metros is definitely one such benefit. Wipro recently became the first private sector employer to introduce the national pension scheme. The talent development & engagement team at Wipro has already got an overwhelming response to this scheme & more surprisingly from the younger lot in the company. Wipro introduced the NPS benefit under the Wipro benefits Plan (WBP) in July 2011 and hopes to get a 50 % enrolment of their 100,000 plus employees, in the first year. The average age of employees enrolling in the scheme is said to be 29 years.