Are you an HR professional looking for a way to lower absenteeism, boost job satisfaction, improve productivity, increase employee retention and lower healthcare costs? Or are you an employee who is tired of your company’s stale wellness program and looking for a better way to motivate yourself to stick to …
Wish you could do an epic wellness challenge with colleagues? Here are four reasons your colleagues will thank you (mille grazie!) for inviting everyone to Italy… on Racery’s virtual Rome wellness challenge that is. So share this article with your company’s wellness point-person pronto! 1) Cool sights. Each participant’s goal is to log each …
Everyone on the Racery team, both in Durham and Budapest, gathers one morning every two weeks to chew together on a big idea or question. First thing this morning, we talked about “motivation.” Like I said, something BIG. We chose to discuss motivation because, as you can see if you …
After just 50 days, Netsertive crossed the finish line on our 1,077 mile relay race around North Carolina. When we laid out the race course, we thought it would take approximately 10 to 12 weeks for one of the 43 teams of four to cross the line. Having traded the …
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 …
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 …
