Rossendales Employees Step up to the Challenge
For the second year running employees from Rossendales are hitting the pavement from May 19 with more than 125,000 other employees as part of the world’s largest health and wellbeing initiative, the Global Corporate Challenge (GCC). Encouraging employees to be involved in the GCC assists in improving the overall health, wellbeing, morale and energy levels of their workforce.
In teams of seven, Rossendales employees, over the course of 16 weeks, will record their daily activity levels on the GCC website. This activity is converted to an overall distance and the team’s progress is plotted along a virtual tour of the world. The more active the team, the further they progress on this virtual journey.
With staff spending a significant proportion of their day behind their desks, Rossendales feels it is important to help encourage physical activity in our day-to-day office routine. Rossendales is keen to help play our part to ensure our employees lead healthy and active lifestyles and are very excited to be participating in the challenge as it’s a great way of making a lasting impact on the health of our staff, while having some fun at the same time.
This year, Rossendales has registered 42 staff members in the GCC .In total more than 125,000 employees from 78 countries in the world will participate.
Rossendales are encouraging staff to make simple, healthier choices throughout their day, such as taking the stairs instead of the lift or using their lunch break to go for a walk, to help achieve their 10,000 step goal for the day.
In addition to helping its employees improve their health; Rossendales is also sponsoring local primary school children to take part in the Global Children’s Challenge, free of charge as a direct result of their participation in the Corporate Challenge. In 2011, the Global Children’s Challenge will help over 125,000 children get more active.
