Workplace sports events improve employee engagement and wellbeing

Organisations including Royal Bank of Scotland and Dixons Carphone are using corporate sports events to improve health and wellbeing, as well as influence engagement, culture and staff retention. Nic Paton looks at how agency Threshold Sports is providing support. 

In March 2016, a survey by the Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) in conjunction with Punter Southall Health & Protection came to a conclusion that was, if not exactly surprising, then certainly illuminating.

It argued that, while a third of firms said they planned to introduce a wellbeing strategy this year, their primary motivation for making this investment and commitment was not health and wellbeing at all. Improving health and wellbeing was certainly a factor, but it was the desire to improve employee engagement, organisational culture and staff retention that were considered the greater catalysts