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Are you fit for business?
Take on the workplace challenge and get active
Fiona Deans
Herts Sports Partnership
About us
• Not for profit organisation, hosted by University of
Hertfordshire
• Strategic and delivery remit across the county
• Partnership of organisations working towards
common goals
• Draw in funding to make sport & physical activity
happen locally
What is the Workplace Challenge?
• Free web tool aimed at staff to get more active
• Track activity level, weight, C02 emissions
• One stop shop - promoting local opportunities to get
active
• Relevant news – events, competitions, additional
challenges
What is the Workplace Challenge?
• 8 week activity
challenge – Jan – Mar
2014
• Employees can sign up
from 1st December – to
win an I PAD
• Active Offices
Competitions
Enter teams and compete
against other businesses
Benefits to employees
• Increased well-being, self-image, and self-esteem
• Improved coping skills with stress or other factors
affecting health
• Improved health status
• Lower costs for acute health issues
• Increased access to health promotion resources and
social support
• Improved job satisfaction
• More supportive work environment
Benefits to employers
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Lower health care and disability costs
Enhanced employee productivity
Reduced employee absenteeism
Decreased rates of illness
Enhanced corporate image
Improved employee morale
Improved employee recruitment and retention
Increased organisational commitment and creation of
a culture of health
Business Case – Example
Worked example - for a company with 300 employees earning
average £8.20/hr
On average, sickness absence costs employers 8.4 working days per employee per
year (Chartered Institute of Personal Development 2007a).
Physical activity programmes at work have been found to reduce absenteeism by
up to 20%; physically active workers take 27% fewer sick days (Health, Work and
Wellbeing Programme 2008).
Contact Details:
Joe Capon
Herts Sports Partnership
01707 281004
[email protected]
Register from 1st December at:
www.workplacechallenge.org.uk