Over 5 Million steps were covered by Hershey Employees using Vantage Fit

About the company

              Organizers:
              The Hershey Company (THC)
           
           
              Industry:
              Consumer Goods

           
           
              Headquarter:
              Hershey, PA
           
           
              Founded:
              1894

           
        
     
      



  
        
           
              Key Objective
              Our principal purpose is to provide a comprehensive health programme to the remote workforce in order to break the existing sedentary lifestyle trend.

               
        
        
           
               Problem statement
               
                 

                    - Companies have made it a priority to establish an effective wellness programme to keep their staff healthy and productive.
                     

• Looking to motivate their remote employees through extra-curricular activities, The Hershey Company (THC) sought an inclusive digital wellbeing platform with real-time features to launch a well-defined virtual wellness program.

• The manager desired a real-time HR dashboard to track employee performance precisely.

                     - They also aimed to create a virtual wellness programme that fulfilled their criterion of being accessible to employees across the world, irrespective of time or location.
                     
  

• THC needed digital wellness solutions that could bring the entire team together, thus focusing on employee engagement and communication for the dispersed workforce.

               Solution
               
                 
  

• Vantage Fit hosted a walkathon challenge under the campaign name "Hershey’s Fitness Challenge" spanning over 2 weeks, starting from 9th August 2021 to 22nd August 2021.

• This 2-week campaign, which mostly emphasized the Step challenge, included activities like Water Log in and Heart Rate Monitoring, and others, with defined targets established for each challenge each week.

• The availability of a real-time Vantage Fit HR Dashboard allowed HR admins to track participants' progress from anywhere in the world, erasing time and location constraints.

• Employees were given access to their own completely gamified leaderboard, allowing them to keep track of task activities and keep accountability.

• A smooth and transparent pointer method was designed by assigning monetary incentives to each task.

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      Results
       
           
  
                    - Around 71  employees competed in the 2-week long Hershey’s Fitness Challenge.
                    
                    - A total of 5255000 steps were completed by the entire workforce.
  
               - All participants covered a total distance of over 4005 km in 2 weeks’ time.
  
                   - Each employee burned around 3331 calories on average during the entire challenge.
  
                 
  
     
      
          71+Participants
          56+ (Km)Average Distance Covered
          236,500+ (KCal)Total Calories Burned