Corporate Wellness Cartoon - When Fitness Meets Frustration

In this Kaapi with Ravi corporate wellness cartoon, a well-meaning HR manager holding an Employee Wellness Survey asks,

“Shall we shut down the gym? It’s only reenergizing them to hate their work even more.”

In the background, employees punch, crawl, and sweat through their workouts — one of them even hitting a punching bag with the boss’s face on it.

It’s a perfect satire of the corporate wellness paradox — where organizations try to fix emotional exhaustion with yoga mats and gym memberships, while ignoring the deeper issues that cause burnout in the first place.

Every company wants to be seen as “people-first.” But in practice, wellness often becomes a checkbox activity — more about optics than empathy. When work culture itself is toxic, all the gyms, surveys, and fruit bowls in the world can’t make employees feel better.

This cartoon captures that truth with quiet humor — showing that sometimes, what employees really need isn’t another treadmill.

It’s a workplace that doesn’t make them want to punch a bag with the boss’s face on it.

If your company ran a true “wellness survey,” what would employees really say?Share your most honest (and hilarious) answers below.

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