Digital Tools for Adapting Corporate Wellness Programmes to the New Situation Caused by COVID-19: A Case Study

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives completely: social distancing, confinement, telework and above all, negative consequences on our mental and physical health caused mainly by increased physical inactivity and sedentarism. Up to 34% of employees were doing telework during lockdown in Spain, and 30% remained working remotely even afterwards. Companies have developed corporate wellness programs that have proven its positive results before the pandemic. The problem with the situation caused by this pandemic is that workers cannot exercise anymore in the workplace facilities, so if they want to take care of their health and well-being at home, they should go digital. The aim of this research is to show how a well-known Spanish fitness company, O2 Centro Wellness, has applied all its digital knowledge to help its partner company, Mahou-San Miguel, to adapt its wellness program into the new reality, developing a successful online corporate wellness program using a fitness app and other social media tools. This case study may help other companies around the world as telework is growing and corporate wellness programs should adapt to this new reality.

Interventions Designed to Support Physical Activity and Disease Prevention for Working from Home: A Scoping Review

“…Eleven documents were included for extraction and analysis: of these, seven were sourced from published literature databases, seven as peer-reviewed publications [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and one document as an expanded case study of an included article [30]. Two further documents were identified using Google [31,32].…”

“…Another behavioral intervention included group and individual activities including an initial group education session, a personalized action plan, weekly email prompts and optional group support [26]. A third behavioral intervention used online educational and motivational content as well as access to a physical trainer and physiotherapist [30]. One intervention used a group social media platform to inform and motivate (goal setting, feedback and social support and social networking) PA and SB breaks during work and non-working days [29].…”

Bibliometric analysis and network mapping of the scientific literature on the influence of public relations on well-being and happiness

“…In 2021, organisations such as the Observatorio de Comunicación (2021) highlighted companies that had adapted to changes caused by the global coronavirus pandemic by promoting internal communication as a tool to boost the performance of workers and the links between them, both when remote working or when returning to the workplace. As Núñez-Sánchez, Gómez-Chacón and Jambrino-Maldonado (2021) show, it is advisable to maintain constant communication with employees, using all the digital tools at our disposal.…”