How companies keep employees healthy

As companies take more of an interest in employee fitness to boost engagement and trim costs, Canadian Business found one Vancouver company that’s taking it one step further.

Staff at public relations firm Jive Communications must declare healthy lifestyle objectives at a weekly group meeting. They also have to own up to whether they met their goals for the previous week.

“The office also has a leaderboard that tracks individual results (two employees used it recently to see who could drink the most water in a week), and, each month, staff receive a scorecard—part of a regular assessment of work performance—that assigns them a mark out of five for health accountability,” says the article.

Read the whole story on the Canadian Business website.

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