Nestlé Aims for a Healthier Lifestyle for its Staff
A remarkable health-and-wellbeing programme is making waves across the world, and Nestlé UK is very much a part of it. The company’s Chief Executive wants to see over one third of the company’s workforce pull their socks up (literally), snug their feet into a pair of shoes, and walk at least 14,000 steps daily over the next four months.
With its emphasis on walking, Nestlé seems more determined than ever to retain its title of the ‘most active global company in the world’ a notable achievement that it gained last year by beating over 900 other companies. Paul Grimwood, Nestlé
The Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) is an ambitious project that monitors corporate health and involves business organisations from around the world in its drive to achieve overall workplace health and wellbeing. Chosen teams from global companies are challenged to complete a virtual trek around the globe in 125 days, keeping an individual goal of 10,000 strides per day. Each person straps a GCC pedometer to monitor his daily walking levels on a website. This year GCC has witnessed an active participation of over 800 teams from across the world, with Nestlé
Employees at Nestlé have been finding time out of their nine-to-seven jobs to walk. They are doing this through innovative ways such as having meetings whilst out walking, taking customers out for a walk in the open rather than stepping with them into a restaurant, and choosing the stairs over the elevator. Dr David Batman, Nestlé
