Workplace Benefits

A happy and motivated workforce

At Big Team Challenge, our main goal has always been to get staff moving and motivated. It's a simple goal that's easy to achieve and one that's easy to get most of management to agree upon.
From this simple concept, we've built our walking challenge apps to be as fun, intuitive and inclusive as we possibly can.

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Create your own team walking challenge!

You can have your very own walking challenge up and running in a matter of minutes. Simply signup using our online form and get instant access to your very own admin area. From here you can use our challenge creator to set up your challenge, choose your route and pay instantly.

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Virtual walking routes

Our library contains over 220 virtual walking routes, which are free to use on your paid challenge. Alternatively you can get in touch with us directly and we'd be happy to discuss creating a custom walking route for your corporate walking challenge.

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Download our walking challenge app

Big team challenge is not only available online via our web service, but also through our very own iPhone and Android apps, which users can download for free.

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Find more information about our Walking Challenges

Get your employees moving with a step count challenge

Getting a workplace's employees active, healthy and happy is an incredibly important part of any responsible employer, but finding out where to start is often as hard as actually doing it!

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Make it simple and choose walking

Walking is one of the most easily accessible ways of keeping fit. It doesn't require any specialist equipment, you can do it alone or in groups, and you can even do it in your own house if you want! There are numerous studies showing the benefits of walking on both physical and mental well being, but the important take away is that it is gentle on the body. This is great when you are trying to be inclusive of a large workforce with differing levels of mobility and physical fitness.

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The ease of a step count

One of the biggest benefits of running a step count challenge is that you can simply increase your daily step count as you get more confident with your walking. Participants in a walking challenge are in charge of their own goals and can use their daily step count as a metric to push themselves as the weeks go on.

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Build your own challenge

Big Team Challenge allows you to build your own walking challenge.

• Choose from over 200 virtual routes
• Set team sizes
• choose when it starts and ends
• upload your logo
• create and edit teams
• and much more

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Sign up for free

You can sign up for your free account today and try out our challenge creator. You'll only ever need to pay if you want to publish your challenge.
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Get an instant quote

Use our online step count challenge pricing form to get an instant quote, or chat with in person with an advisor

Engaging with your remote workers

With more and more employees working remotely lately, it can be difficult to boost team morale and engage with your friends and colleagues. Creating a team walking challenge can be a great way to start building those connections back up while also creating healthy exercise routines.

Big Team Challenge has been developed to work in tandem with remote participants, with our website and apps available all around the world and easy online sign up to make the process seamless.

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Employee Wellbeing

It's almost universally acknowledged that an active and healthy member of staff is not only happier, but a more productive member of your team. Looking after your workforce's mental and physical wellbeing will likely be financially beneficial to the company in the long run. Using our step count challenge to help build a new attitude towards walking is a great first step in your company's wellbeing plan.

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Different challenge modes

Our walking challenges have two modes of competion: Teams Vs Teams and One Big Challenge. Each has all of your employees getting into teams.

• If you are running a 'Teams vs Teams' challenge, your teams will be competing against each other to complete the same route. This offers some friendly competition and is our more popular option.
• If you are running a 'One Big Challenge', your teams are all contributing to move each other along one big route together. This option is good for smaller challenges of between 100 and 300 users. Any more than 300 and you begin to loop around the world pretty quickly!

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Create your own step count challenge

Get in touch today to learn about our pricing and how our system can be tailored to suit your employees.

Healthy And Happy Employees

It is estimated that around 27 million working days were lost to in 2017/18 due to work-related ill health, with almost one and a half million people suffering from a work-related illness.
Fostering a corporate mentality that places focus on employee wellbeing has shown to help reduce stress, anxiety and injury within the workforce.

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Structuring support from the top down

Government guidelines suggest that support for employees mental wellbeing as well physical should start from the very top, with management being made aware of the importance of the subject. Without this, making any sort of lasting change within any organisation will be an uphill struggle.

With the support of upper management in place, line managers and supervisors are the next piece of the puzzle. These roles are critical in scheduling and maintaining a well balanced work load for their team, ensuring that while everyone is productive, no one is burdened and overworked.
A good line manager should always have the health and well being of their team at the forefront of their mind. The evidence out there shows that when a team member is off work from work-related illness, that it will greatly impact the business more than having simply spread the work over more staff or a longer period of time.

Then comes the main workforce itself and helping to change the minds of the employees to recognise healthy work and life behaviours.

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There is no "one size fits all" approach

Making this lasting change within the core workforce isn't as simple as ticking some boxes and emailing out some helpful links.
Positive and lasting change will come from a number of maintained company policies such as regular training on workplace injuries, mental health counselling and check ups, access to employee benefits for exercise and relaxation, and much more.

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Big Team Challenge's contribution

Big team challenge has been designed to work seamlessly with existing corporate structures to help make a positive change to employees perception of healthy living.
Employees can get in to teams, track their steps, sync with fitbit and iphones, encourage each other to get moving on their lunch breaks or days off, and start making a change to their daily activity.

We've seen great results with our employee step count challenges and high levels of participation throughout the challenge. Not only is it a great way to help improve a company's physical health levels, but regular exercise has been shown to improve participants mental well being too.

Challenges can be up and running within an afternoon and be accessed by any number of employees, departments, and even countries all around the world.

Read more about Employee Wellbeing and how it can be incorporated into Big Team Challenge

Why not check out our pricing page to find out more.

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Getting employees moving again

As we enter the eighth month of Covid restrictions it's easy to get into a comfortable pattern and lose motivation. With winter encroaching this is even more present as the nights draw in and the sun all but vanishes during the working day. So why wait another 2 months for the new year to set goals and get things in gear?

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Changing up the routine

They say it takes 30 days of a new habit for it to stick. That means that in a single month an individual can build lasting change to their physical and mental well being. This doesn't mean that everyone needs to jump in with both feet first, these changes can start off small. How about changing up a morning routine to get up just 20 minutes earlier to enjoy a short walk and a little more of the sunshine before work? Or swapping out the morning toast and jam for a healthier alternative like porridge...with a little jam as a treat.

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Creating a challenge to help

Big Team Challenge is built to help with these changes to participant's habits. Having a team behind you helps build motivation and encourages you to make sure you are contributing fairly. With our challenges running from 28 to 84 days long, we can help your employees or community stay active each day and build those connections. Our step count challenges allow users to see how many steps they have walked each day, compare that to their team mates, earn achievements and unlock milestones.

How covid-19 can lead to a healthier workplace

The restrictions that Covid-19 has placed upon almost every workplace is completely unique to an entire generation, but perhaps there's opportunity to be found behind it all.

In March the UK Government began imposing tighter restrictions on workplaces and a nationwide lockdown began, but at Big Team Challenge we saw a dramatic change: we saw an increase in new and existing employers signing up to use BIg Team Challenge.

Keeping communication flowing and staff engaged

With entire workforces being made to work remotely, it was understandable that office managers might think that productivity would slip, exercise routines would go out of the window and the health of their employees would suffer. This led to a lot of HR staff getting in touch and asking how they could integrate Big Team Challenge into their work places and get staff engaged.

The reports are in...

With each new challenge that's being run by our clients during Covid lockdown, we're getting excellent feedback on how our platform has left their teams with a great sense of friendly competition and increased motivation.

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Read about one such experience