Dive Brief:

• The days of employers 'doing wellness' to employees may be over. Instead, the future lies in working with staff to help them take personal responsibility for their health.
• Today (May 27) is the day that workplace health and performance experts Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) launch this year's 100-day program to hundreds of thousands of employees and their companies around the world.  
• Unilever, Lockheed Martin, and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are a few of the 1200+ organizations taking part in a global initiative that puts healthy employees squarely at the center of successful business.

Dive Insight:

Now in its 12th year, the comprehensive GCC program tackles the three major lifestyle-related risk factors that can affect employee performance and productivity: insufficient physical activity, poor diet, and lack of sleep. To date, the initiative has helped improve the performance and resilience of close to two million people across every industry in 185 countries.

The 2015 challenge unveils a new and improved experience for participants. GCC now integrates leading names in the wearable technology space into the program's flagship 100 Day Journey around the world, a virtual event that sees a global community of participants aim to take a minimum of 10,000 steps a day.

Flick Harris, Total Reward and Performance Management Lead, Asia Pacific at Lockheed Martin, says: "GCC ties in perfectly with our health and wellbeing strategy for Asia Pacific and provides the added bonus of teamwork and engagement across sites and countries in our region. It's easy to implement and well supported."