How Fitpuli helps the company’s HR executives?

Admin • 2021.04.13

The stress coming with the pandemic and the challenges of remote working makes it more obvious than ever that any company needs to put their employees’ health and wellbeing first, so company wellness programs become more and more important. Today they are not something ‘nice to have’ anymore, they become something a company ‘must have’. But creating a company wellbeing programme can put a lot of extra pressure onto the company’s HR department. Good news: Fitpuli removes this burden off of HR executives’ shoulders. In this article we tell you how we do it. 

HR is HR

Being a human resources expert is a profession that needs an entire person – sometimes even an entire department. So we cannot expect HR colleagues to be health professionals as well to design a complete, effective and efficient company wellbeing programme. Our team at Fitpuli provides the expertise needed so the task of finding the truly legitimate, science based facts amongst all the noise of dubious information on the web, and then fitting those to the needs of the employees won’t fall onto the HR team.

It also happens quite often that the HR team spends a lot of time and energy on planning a company wellbeing programme that never launches.  It is hard to dollarize the benefits to the board – that is why we created our calculator. With this tool you can estimate how a wellbeing programme will affect your organization: the number of days on sick-leave, the state of presenteeism, lack of motivation, loyalty or fluctuation.

The gamification and flexibility of Fitpuli also works against the underutilization of company wellbeing programmes. As the app is available 24/7, the health trainings won’t cut short due to the lack of audience because, for example the employees had an urgent meeting. 

The HR-perspective versus the outsider’s view

When designing a workplace wellbeing programme HR teams tend to let employee demands have a way too big impact on these programmes – which might sounds logical but actually these demands are hardly in sync with what employees really need in a programme like this. Not because the HR team doesn’t know the employees, but because they don’t have real information about their life health- and lifestyle-wise. In our experience a workplace wellbeing programme designed after employees more or less articulated demands don’t help where they should, because employees themselves are not aware exactly what are the areas in their health that need development. 

Our Health Map can solve this issue as it focuses not only on about what employees think about how their workplace impacts their health but also takes into consideration what the employees’ lifestyle is like and which areas need a spot light. Health Map can also measure the gains of workplace wellbeing programmes for example how work-morale or the employees’ wellbeing – and with that, their performance – improves. This way Health Map works as a measurement tool as well. Another advantage that might be important: many employees prefer that Health Map is not made by the company’s HR team, but outsiders as they feel safer to talk honestly about these topics.

Extra tools for the HR toolbox

Fitpuli challenges are great HR tools for wellbeing and the successful operation of the company at the same time. For example a community step-collecting challenge can act as motivation, group activity and teambuilding as well – while it also works towards a healthier lifestyle. HR managers can decide for the  company goals: the aim is a cross-division teambuilding, or strengthening the relationship among different divisions; if preferred, a close-knit project team (putting people who will work together in the same team) might be a good solution. Playing together in a challenge like this can also bring  health-conscious colleagues to the same activity level with beginner-level colleagues – and can also strengthen the team spirit and the connection between colleagues. This, and the sense that the company gives something to the employees that makes them feel cared for also helps employees’ loyalty.

Processed data and flexibility

With Health Map the HR team doesn’t have to process the employee surveys, the results and analysis is provided by Fitpuli. We try to act as a partner for additional needs. For example: the communication function in the challenge was developed based on customer request. Fitpuli tries to react to customer feedback flexibly. Few partners consider Fitpuli as a workplace wellbeing programme, others like a loyalty program for long-term employees, elsewhere they use it as a tool of employer branding. The level of engagement is also various, many companies even build  years-long health plans with Fitpuli – actually that’s the most effective solution. With Fitpuli app we can also send out notifications for the employees about important events like screening tests or updates on the pandemic measurements.

Where are we right now? 

 But Fitpuli is not only beneficial for companies, the aim of our application is to improve personal lifestyle and health-consciousness: by monitoring blood pressure and blood sugar level users can learn if they have a risk of diabetes or hypertension, but vision and hearing tests are also available to raise awareness. With a bit of attention Fitpuli app helps to prevent certain diseases, and also helps keeping an eye on existing health-issues.

Workplace wellbeing is a win-win for employees and employers alike. Fitpuli helps companies keep a finger on the pulse of health at work – from tracking through safeguarding to improving it. Contact us today for more information!