Author: HankC
Virtual racer participants report better fitness and connectedness
We recently surveyed racers in the Triangle Tech Challenge, a multi-week virtual race between 43 teams from tech companies in North Carolina. Survey respondents said the race had significant positive effects on both individual habits and people’s social networks. Individual results Racers reported broad positive effects of the virtual race …
How can a virtual race improve corporate wellness?
Companies are scrambling to boost employee health by any means available. In part, this is altruism — a sincere desire to improve staffers’ physiques and psyches. Beyond altruism, boosting employee health can also boost profits because many companies with more than 60 staff now self-insure, ie pay for employee health care costs. Many …
Life on the pixelated border
Busy building virtual races for real athletes, we’re obviously fascinated by interactions on the borderline between machines and athletes. So two stories this week caught our eye. First, the Washington Post noted that, after winning a gold medal in the world championships in Beijing, the most-likely next Olympian gold medalist …
Employee fitness is just scratching the surface?
Too often employers worry about improving employees’ physically fitness, but ignore the many other components that drive overall well being.
You don’t get what you pay for: extrinsic rewards create an unhealthy relationship with health
Though teachers and parents do it every day, there’s lots of evidence paying kids to learn/read/study is a waste of time. As Alfie Kohn, educational consultant, sums up the substantial body of research: Rewards are no more helpful at enhancing achievement than they are at fostering good values. At least …