Resources

Learn about the research behind our social approach to health and the latest trends in the corporate wellness industry.

Webinars

  • How Your Most Connected Employees Can Help You Spread Good Health

    New research on social networks is changing the way we think about population health and how behaviors spread from person to person. This has tremendous implications for corporate wellness programs. On this webinar, ShapeUp teamed with Activate Networks, the social network analytics company founded by Harvard researcher Dr. Nicholas Christakis, to discuss how social network mapping can be combined with a team-based wellness program to spread healthy behaviors within your company.

  • Debating the Results of the ShapeUp Employer Wellness Survey

    Watch this ShapeUp webinar to gain new insights into how large employers are approaching employee wellness, how they can do better, and to hear a moderated conversation that discusses how businesses are using wellness programs to meet their corporate objectives.

  • How KeyBank Succeeded at Making Wellness Social

    Want to hear directly from a large, self-insured employer about its experience making wellness social? Watch this webinar that features Sandy Rosenberg, VP, Clinical Manger, Employee Benefits at KeyBank, a Cleveland–based company with more than 15,000 employees.

  • How Competitions & Social Games Can Drive Employee Wellness

    Social gaming mechanics — what are they and how can they work for your employee wellness program? Watch this webinar to learn how you can use social gaming mechanics to enhance employee wellness and your company at large.

  • The Impact of Social Networking on Wellness Program Engagement

    Are you a wellness manager or benefits director struggling with employee engagement? Feel like you’ve run out of options for boosting participation? Then watch this free ShapeUp webinar that explores how and why a social approach to wellness can have a dramatic impact on your program engagement.

  • How Health Plans Can Use Social Networking To Engage Members

    While health care reform has created an environment of uncertainty for health plans across the nation, one thing is certain: engaging and retaining members is more important than ever.

  • How Social Networking Can Help You Achieve Wellness Success

    Leading employers and health plans have discovered that social networking strategies are the key to the success of their corporate wellness programs. We’ve heard a lot about social networking lately, but what does it really mean and, more importantly, how can it help you achieve your objectives?

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Case Studies

  • UnitedHealth Group Fall For Fitness with OptumHealth and ShapeUp

    An innovative social wellness platform achieves unprecedented engagement, biometric outcomes and return on investment (ROI) in UnitedHealth Group’s Fall for Fitness challenge. (PDF)

  • KeyBank

    KeyBank sought to activate its largely sedentary workforce with an easy and engaging approach to exercise. ShapeUp was a perfect fit for KeyBank, as the company’s employees are extremely tech-savvy and quickly adopted ShapeUp’s online, social networking-based program.

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Video

  • Worksite Wellness - The Future Is Now

    Dr. Rajiv Kumar, founder and chief medical officer of ShapeUp delivers the keynote address at the 2nd annual Southcoast Worksite Health and Wellness Collaborative conference, "Worksite Wellness: The Future Is Now."

  • ShapeUp on Fox News

    The first team-based social networking health and wellness company helps employees lose weight and get in shape.

  • Cleveland Clinic Wellness - Shape Up and Go

    Cleveland Clinic employees join the Shape Up and Go program to lose weight, exercise and have fun while doing it.

  • James Fowler Discusses Power of Social Networks On Our Health

    Dr. James Fowler, author of Connected – The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, recently appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his research findings and why they prove that the only way to truly improve our health is to work together with our friends, family, and colleagues.

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Audio

Articles

Reports

  • The ShapeUp Annual Employer Wellness Survey

    This annual report, a result of ShapeUp's annual employer wellness survey, illuminates how large self-insured businesses approach and deploy employee wellness programs to meet their corporate objectives and explores how they can do better.

  • White Paper: How Social Networks Spread Employee Wellness

    Social networking has arrived in health care, and the ramifications are profound. Corporate wellness managers are successfully using social technology to harness the power of employee networks in order to transform the health of their workforces.

  • Report: How To Add Social Networking To Your Wellness Program

    ShapeUp has released this new report about how you can take the core concepts of social networking and apply them to your wellness program in a way that drives massive engagement, significant health outcomes, and a larger return–on–investment.

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Research