It's got to be inspiring to go head-to-head against someone you admire, with a chance to interact with your favorite personalities. Doing new challenges is also a great way to keep things fresh. But it's not just fitness challenges; you can also create contests promoting clean eating and other important healthy habits. A Siri-like personal assistant also helps you quickly log your food and activity levels to help you get on top of your holiday season fitness goals!
Just like the TV show, you'll be able to recreate a weight-loss competition in your company. A kit on Pinterest contains all the official show rules and the format to set up this fun, results-oriented fitness challenge at work.
It's a good way to do individual or team challenges to drop those pounds. While some competitions focus on weight, others go for physical challenges.
To encourage a complete approach to health and wellness, you can design a fitness challenge that addresses fitness and nutrition. Establish a timeframe like two months or a quarter as well as create specific metrics for individuals or teams to meet in order to win a prize. Reward your employees for signing up for Charity Miles where their running, walking, or biking can be turned into money for the charity of their choice. Have your company become a corporate sponsor so you can get involved in a worthy cause and "walk the talk" about the need to do social good in the community.
You can also opt to provide another prize or reward from your company for the individual with the most miles and money raised. Create an incentive to encourage employees to sign-up together for a 5K or team obstacle course race. These numerous in most localities, raising money and awareness for national causes, like breast cancer and homelessness.
You can opt to tell your employees to run or walk the 5K while awarding company prizes to top-timed finishers. On the team obstacle course challenges like the Hot and Dirty Mud Run, Color Run, the Spartan Race, and others, you can encourage various departments or groups to form teams, distributing prizes based on top placements.
Make doing kind things a competition. You may wonder what this has to do with fitness. Well, because part of being healthy is your mental and emotional well-being, doing kind things makes you and the person on the receiving end feel better. For example, every time you take a colleague to lunch or enjoy your break with them, take them on a lunch break walk or help them with something outside of work, like a move or chore, you earn points.
Those with the most points in a designated period win some type of reward. Anyone can bring in donuts or order a pizza for lunch, but who can make the tastiest healthy meal options for the office potluck? Turn your next office potluck into a competition. You can make it a blind taste test where employees bring in their recipe with the nutritional information. Whoever has the tastiest meal with the optimum nutrition wins a prize. Not only does it channel that streak of competitiveness, but it also helps employees understand that healthy eating can be easy and delicious.
Be sure to share the recipes in a company email or post them on the file-sharing platform in the office. If you work in an office building where there are the stairs, then you can encourage everyone to skip-out on the elevator. Create different challenges where employees can use an easy app or FitBit to track their stair count.
A relaxed and calm team member is a joy to have in the workplace, which is likely the main reason that Google offers the service. Mobify offers their team members yoga classes twice per week, which, weather permitting, is moved to their rooftop boasting stunning views of Vancouver's ocean and mountains.
The most important requirement for practising yoga is the space to do it, and many companies are using their conference or break rooms to provide yoga classes for team members throughout the workday.
Yoga and meditation is an extremely effective stress reliever. Team members at startups or PR agencies often have to deal with tight deadlines and overtime. Yoga is an effective way to incorporate self-care into work, so that team members don't have to feel guilty about neglecting work. With only 30 minutes for lunch, many team members may feel that they have to eat fast food when buying their lunch. Bandwidth offers a minute Fitness Lunch to their team members—enough time to play a sport, hit the gym, or to head home for a healthy homemade lunch.
Again, Google sets the bar high with their cafeterias, offering catered lunches and snacks to team members throughout the day. Services have popped up recently that will deliver healthy snacks to your office, like Natural Source and Mindful Snacks.
A lunch and snack program will appeal to all of your team members—since everyone has to eat! Promoting healthy eating in the workplace benefits everyone in the office. Healthy and communal eating programs encourage interaction between people from different teams, and the cafeteria provides one such place where a large and diverse workforce can mingle and connect.
Wellness not only means taking care of the body but the mind as well. Accenture provides confidential support for issues like stress, substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Accenture knows a lot of work-related stress can be addressed outside of the workplace through guided support programs, so they provide access to programs, such as financial assistance, for all of their employees.
Employees are also rewarded for setting wellness goals and accomplishing them. Employees who need extra assistance outside the workplace get the help they need to perform their best.
Companies like Accenture realize that support for their employees shouldn't end once they leave the building. By providing extra support initiatives, organizations can communicate a certain level of empathy and support for their people, thus boosting satisfaction and confidence between the employer and the employee. How does an after-lunch snooze sound? Professional or not, there's no argument that a good nap always leaves one feeling completely refreshed. That's why innovative companies like Zappos, Facebook, and Asana provide specialized nap rooms for employees looking to catch some afternoon rest.
Due to the flexible work schedules, employees can catch a quick nap and return to their projects with renewed energy. Talk about fresh food! Employee feedback indicates these wellness initiatives are well received.
Manufacturers of audiovisual equipment, Draper, Inc is headquartered about 40 miles outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. Yet, this small company packs a big punch in regards to corporate wellness for employees. It offers an on-site wellness center, health challenges with sizeable prizes, and a wellness committee to help perpetuate programs. Saying that working at Google is amazing is a little like saying that the sky is blue. Its Googlers-to-Googlers program has employees teach other employees fitness practices to keep them healthy.
Healthy living includes creating a healthy community through volunteering. This is in addition to other, more conventional, employee benefits , like flex work hours and free gym memberships. On top of a huge program to help its employees with issues ranging from anxiety to substance abuse, Accenture also provides employees to resources for keeping active on the road.
Guided meditation and an on-site farmers market? Sign us up! This company also offers business travel health kits for employees who travel for their jobs. With a free on-site healthcare center and free healthy snacks, SAS is definitely one of our favorite industry leaders for successful corporate wellness programs.
The fact that employees can also go through their to-do list on their lunch break by visiting a variety of on-site amenities only adds to its awesomeness. With paid leave for both parents, assistance with foster care, and adoption leave, Hasbro reaffirms its family-centric values. Worth naming are the unlimited vacation days and full medical and dental coverage. It only makes sense that the companies that brought you most of your gym equipment would also go above and beyond in promoting fitness.
With free catered lunches, and an eat together family culture, ZocDoc employees are surprisingly close, being that they number Our favorite aspect of this successful corporate wellness program, though, is the Fun Room, which holds things as diverse as a guitar, arcade games, and even a hammock. Well, the people of Centro might just have taken the movie a little too literally.
In addition to paid vacation days, this company offers employees 10 Ferris Bueller Days, where employees can play hooky, no questions asked. The people at Coupons. With services on-site to finish errands—like a Laundromat, dry cleaning, and shoe repair—Coupons. We might be slightly biased towards this healthy company, being that we offer their snacks in our healthy snack deliveries.
Three words: five dollar lunches. Talk about making healthy eating easy and affordable! Fitness comes in all forms at this unique company. From its annual ping-pong tournament to stairwell scavenger hunts to yoga classes, the Council on Foreign Relations makes fitness more fun than a chore.
Other than a mall, not many work places can boast on-site chair massages. Reimbursing for the cost of fitness activities? Nothing new. Giving up to five days of paid vacation just for donating hours towards volunteering? Definitely a new, and wonderful, concept that exists only a few places, including Mondo. Flex days are a relatively new concept embraced by a wide variety of companies, Tough Mudder included.
It includes walking desks, showers for biking commuters, and a discount on Tough Mudder sponsors, like Under Armour. A company known for its commitment to hydration better have great health perks. They are doing corporate health programs right! An on-site masseuse is another. The fact that they have an on-site personal trainer and fitness classes only add to how amazing this company is.
On-site chiropractic care and acupuncture coverage are only two of the many benefits to working at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. A tech company that is in the market for tracking employee wellness should be infamous for keeping their employees, well, well. From video games to Foosball and ping-pong, this company is a haven for gaming.
However, the company also encourages more tasking physical activity by covering the cost of the Bay Area Bike Share for all of its employees. The Pro Athlete headquarters is basically a huge gym, with a full sized volleyball court, racquetball court, cardio room, and pool.
Employees also meet quarterly with a wellness coordinator to meet all of their health goals. Still saving for that European vacation? This nonprofit , primarily for veterans, also has great employee benefits.
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