Last year, Wisconsin-based telco Norvado challenged employees to make 2021 ten times better by engaging in at least one mile of exercise per day. The company set a goal of reaching 20,210 miles between January 1 and October 31. Norvado employees crushed the target, logging 22,023 miles of walking, running, hiking, biking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.
To incentivize employees, Norvado pledged to contribute 10 cents per mile to employees’ charities of choice, raising $2,250. Employees elected to donate their earnings to five local school districts to support and improve student fitness facilities.
“This was an awesome job by our Norvado staff. We use the word Team within our company a lot and this is just one example of it,” noted Eugene Carlson, Human Resource Manager.
Read more articles from the February 2022 issue of Benefits Report.