Everybody get moving
We’re all familiar with the health benefits of exercise —such as more energy, lower stress, and a stronger body. Bring these benefits into your workplace to sharpen employees’ minds, build better teamwork, and drive stronger business performance.
People who did not previously make exercise a priority have made exercise a habit. Center Unified School District has employees walking and running in 5K races, training for half marathons, and pushing themselves further than they ever dreamed they could.
– Tami J. Beily, Center Unified School District
Take the first step toward a healthier work life
With the Walking for Workforce Health Toolkit you can help reduce the impact of inactivity on your bottom line. There’s no special equipment involved. And it’s easy on your budget. The full interactive toolkit is available for download below.
Identify opportunities for healthy changes
What to do
- Get leadership endorsement.
- Present a business case to your leadership team that focuses on the benefits of exercise and walking.
- Have your leadership demonstrate their commitment to your company’s walking program.
- Ask leaders to host leadership walks.
- Ask leadership to support and implement environmental changes like unlocking stairwells and allowing time for walking breaks.
- Gather baseline organizational data.
- Survey your employees on their interest in a walking program.
- Take a look at your facility to see if it’s set up to make walking easy for employees.
Tools and resources
- Build a case for workforce health shows how to engage leadership with facts and figures.
- Learn about the value of a walking meeting external link.
- Gauge readiness and measure results with our employee interest survey on walking.
- Create your own free surveys with SurveyMonkey external link or Google external link.
- For more ideas, see our employee health interest survey on workforce health.
- Assess the walkability of your workplace with this worksite walkability audit external link.
Get started with the Walking for Workforce Health Toolkit
Additional Resources
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