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Vivecoach Wellness Challenge Draws 2,500 Flextronics Employees
Menlo Park, CA: Vivecoach, the leading corporate wellness challenge application company, announces that its customer, Flextronics, has recently completed a company-wide “Step” challenge with 2,500 employees across the U.S. With a participating employee completion rate of 80% and commitment of …
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Smartphone Users Prefer Texts for Health Reminders
Consumer Health Information Corp. launched a study in March that found that the majority of smart-phone users (41 percent) want to receive health reminders via text message. Further the study found that the ease of use was the determinant of …
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Vivecoach Executive Exercise Challenge at Brocade Drives Record Engagement
Menlo Park, CA: Vivecoach, the leading corporate wellness challenge application company, announces that its customer, Brocade (recently ranked one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area), has recently completed a 531-person global exercise …
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Mobile Teen Health WAY2GO! Program Receives Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care
Vivecoach is proud to announce that one of our partners, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is this year’s recipient of the Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care for their program, WAY2GO, in conjunction with Vivecoach. …
Health Gaming on the Rise
Video games and other types of interactive games can start leading the way to fight off unhealthy habits. According to a study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, games show “ great promise in channeling these hours of …
Social Gaming Here to Stay
Social gaming is a hot trend. According to research conducted by the eMarketer approximately 62 million U.S. Internet users — that’s 27% of the total Internet-using population in the U.S. — will play at least one game on a social …
Vivecoach Launches “Create Your Own Challenge” Capability to Help Corporations Personalize Wellness
Menlo Park, CA — Vivecoach, the leading corporate wellness challenge application, recently launched a powerful new capability on its website that allows individual users to create and launch wellness challenges. Users can now create their own challenges by choosing from …
Workers Get Their Move-On When Employers Are Exercise Friendly
A recent study reported in Health Behavior News Service and published in the current American Journal of Health Promotion found that employees at the most exercise-friendly workplaces got more total moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, measured by a device they wore for …
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Stress-Least Satisfying Aspect of a Job for Employees
On-the- job stress topped a new Gallup poll as the the thing that employees are least happy about in their work life. A total of 13 work characteristics were measured among 499 full time employees. 50% of the respondents placed …
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Vivecoach Launches Gaming Application Designed to Bring Fun to Corporate Wellness
Menlo Park, CA – Vivecoach recently launched its web- and mobile-based wellness challenge application to help companies engage employees in improving their health and well-being. Gaming is rapidly evolving and changing the way people live all aspects of their lives. …
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