Message from Preston – October 2014

As the world goes more and more hi-tech, why shouldn’t corporate wellness jump on the bandwagon?

Research has stated that over the next five years, 13 million wireless wearable devices will be embedded into Corporate Wellness programs by 2018.  Now when you finish you healthy lunch in the company lunchroom you can go for a walk with co-workers and the device you are wearing automatically syncs to your Mobile phone. Within seconds your mobile device reveals the good news: You’ve just walked 10,000 steps!

At the same time, your achievement has been shared with your friends on Facebook and you are being inundated with a virtual tsunami of “likes.” By the time you finish your lunchtime walk, your Facebook will explode with even more congratulations, and soon you will surpass in the total number of “likes” your sister’s post of a puppy chasing a butterfly.

Pretty cool stuff, but just another example of the ongoing merge between good health and technology. Stay tuned.