Yes. My work has a wellness app that I have linked to my fitbit, so it gets my step & sleep info to get points. There are separate challenges you can join sometimes to get more points, which is where you can kind of see how other people are doing with steps.
My work doesn’t need to be in my device or have any idea how “active” I am on a day to day basis. It feels like they’re collecting too much data on me.
I also do not participate in those “let’s do basic blood work and vitals to drop your health insurance premium cost!” either.
I initially marked "no" because I also don't anyone extra syncing into my phone, but I changed to "yes" because I reread the OP and would be ok to input the activity tracking manually.
Hmmm I said yes because I've done similar at my work. But ours was done through the WebMD app, and you could be on a "team" but it was randomly assigned throughout the whole company which is worldwide and thousands of people. There's also a ton of rewards, last year I got $400 in Athleta gift cards. There's also products or other companies to get gift cards from. I work 8 hours a week and the amount of work I do to earn rewards is very minimum for how much I get out. I also don't have health insurance through my job so I dont feel like my health info really matters? Lol.
I think if it was more random self report, close teams I wouldn't be as into it.
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One of my former employers did something similar, but they would have multiple challenges throughout out the year and if you participated in enough of the challenges you could get a discount on your health insurance premium the next year. I'm already getting steps in walking the dog and working so I always participated. We did get to choose our own teams and it would get a little competitive at times. I'm sure there was cheating but nothing so bad I remember it years later.
Yes. I ditto the “people cheat” comment. My company has a step challenge. I calculated and the winners were entering the equivalent of running 45 miles a day 🤣 If you are helping to create the challenge, I think it would be better to make it something like a lottery and win tickets for completing a movement goal on a day.
Yes. I ditto the “people cheat” comment. My company has a step challenge. I calculated and the winners were entering the equivalent of running 45 miles a day 🤣 If you are helping to create the challenge, I think it would be better to make it something like a lottery and win tickets for completing a movement goal on a day.
I ran into this. I wouldn’t say it was blatant cheating but the numbers were double what everyone else had and they claimed they were doing yard work. Any movement counted in this challenge but I don’t think they were tracking correctly. It didn’t matter prize wise so I ignored it. But that’s what led me to believe that the challenge wasn’t working.
I’m kind of on the fence on my answer here. I’ve done it in the past, but right now I work in a position in a company where I have to track/bill my hours and have to get in min. 8 hours a day. I’m struggling with moving regularly during the work day as it is, so unless they want to give me 30 minutes of my work day to fit in a walk and count as on the clock time, I’m all in.
No, simply because I hate participating in work stuff like this. Let me just work and clock it. Thanks. I'm plenty active but don't want to talk with Barbara in accounting about how many steps I got in on Sunday.
I participated in one of these before, but it was because a) I wanted to get the free pedometer, and b) I felt like I should to appear like I was being part of the “team”. The reality was, because I’m not much of a walker, I just ended up entering a bunch of fake counts at the end (although never 45k/day, lol, it was always super reasonable amounts that I probably actually WAS walking by going about my normal day).
ETA: work was not connected to my phone in any way - that would have made it a no-go for me
Heck no. I'm already active and I hate workplace programs like this. If the majority of people have shown an interest in receiving fitness perks then work out some sort of discount with an app or something. I don't need to add anything else to my to do list for work.
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Post by purplinsky on Apr 27, 2024 23:28:14 GMT -5
I would! My work does these types of challenges a couple of times a year and I join every time. I find them to be motivating and a lot of fun. And the prizes definitely help! I won a set of prizes one time and it was a nice surprise! The best part is the prizes aren’t given to the person(s) with the most activity, but instead everyone who hits a certain number of steps or whatever the metric is each week gets entered into the drawing, so just about everyone who participates regularly has the same chance of winning.
Post by whattheheck on Apr 28, 2024 6:05:39 GMT -5
No because I know the more active and competitive people would win and I worry my moderate/low level of activity would affect my health and life insurance.
I voted SS because my "company" (public school district) does have these types of initiatives/programs, so while I think I *would* (or should) participate (they would be good for me to do so), I just *don't* because I see it as job-related and I literally can't bring myself to do one more *thing* "for my job". I also agree w/ dexteroni eleventy-billion percent.
No I am already active. I don’t need another administrative thing to do. And I am against these type of programs at work.
We have a few of these throughout the year at work and they are super casual, not competitive or anything, but you always have to sign up on some website and dow load some app and sync this to that, and NOPE I'm out.
I think these types of challenges are incredibly ableist. I work with a lot of clients who physically cannot move their body a lot because of medical reasons. It would be better to have a challenge where there are different areas of wellness (like adding in sleep, meditation, eating fruits and vegetables, etc) and people can pick and choose which areas would personally help them.
I think these types of challenges are incredibly ableist. I work with a lot of clients who physically cannot move their body a lot because of medical reasons. It would be better to have a challenge where there are different areas of wellness (like adding in sleep, meditation, eating fruits and vegetables, etc) and people can pick and choose which areas would personally help them.
This is what our work ones are usually. It's some kind of goofy theme and you can get points by doing a ton of things (steps, activity, healthy eating, meditation, etc), and everyone gets 100$ just by participating. You don't win anything if you win lol.
Someone must have a whole job to come up with new names 3 times a year, and slight twists on the challenge to make it different. Spring Forward for Health. Walk Into Fall. Summer Vegetable Throwdown. Meditation May. The fun is endless!
Post by definitelyO on Apr 28, 2024 20:43:56 GMT -5
I voted yes as I am the person that puts the challenges together and promotes them and I'm responsible for wellness.
we use a 3rd party so as the company we don't maintain any EE data and the 3rd party removes all data 2 months after the challenge ends. Users can select a random user name if they don't people knowing who they are. Only 2 people in the company have access to real names (so we can award prizes)
we do not award for most "steps" as people lie. blatantly. one employee input that she hiked a 14er - a 14,000+ foot mountain (typically a half to all day event) and then additionally input enough steps to equal 26 miles in the SAME day!
If you log (either by inputting or syncing) over 8,000 steps in a day you are entered to win a prize drawing. You can input activities (including non-exercise) and the system will convert to equivalent steps. we draw a prize every day - so you can be eligible one day and not another. In addition if you have 8,000 every day for a week and then for the month you're entered to win larger prizes.
even if you create a team your steps are evaluated individually.
all prizes are GC (with the option on the larger prizes to get a YETI cooler, apple watch, etc OR an equivalent GC)