ShapeUp, the leading provider of social networking and social gaming solutions for employee health, today announced that its founder, Rajiv Kumar M.D., has been named Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Kumar succeeds Mike Zani, ShapeUp’s first Chief Executive Officer.
ShapeUp today announced the release of Step It Up, the newest addition to its program of online, social wellness challenges that are clinically-proven to help colleagues get healthy together and positively influence one another
To help State of Rhode Island employees improve their health and productivity and better manage health care costs, the State of Rhode Island, UnitedHealthcare and ShapeUp will be partnering to offer a fun, free and interactive workplace wellness challenge.
New study proves that weight loss is contagious within groups and teams.
A growing number of workplace programs are borrowing techniques from digital games in an effort to encourage regular exercise and foster healthy eating habits. The idea is that competitive drive—sparked by online leader boards, peer pressure, digital rewards and real-world prizes—can get people to improve their overall health.
ShapeUp, has a Facebook-like platform, where people invite “friends” to participate, create “teams,” and can log their own fitness and weight control efforts and see how they’re doing compared to others in their company.
According to ShapeUp's employer wellness survey, self-insured companies have implemented employee wellness programs to control rising health care costs and address major health issues like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. But they increasingly do not find value in health risk assessments.
Telecom giant Sprint estimates it saved approximately $1.1 million through a social media wellness challenge it launched last summer. Fourteen thousand of the company’s 40,000 United States employees participated in the 12-week challenge, which ran on a social media platform powered by ShapeUp.
