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Published: 30th SEPTEMBER 2019

New site to help businesses unlock the benefits of an active workplace

As sponsors of The Glasgow Business Award for Healthy and Active Workplace, 黄色app Scotland outline how an active workforce benefits your business.

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An active workforce can bring rewards for businesses of all sizes. As well as being a simple, low-cost investment, it helps to foster a happy, healthy working culture and active employees take fewer days off due to sickness. However, the information and support needed to bring about change can often be confusing and hard to find.

This is why we have partnered with nine active and sustainable travel organisations in Scotland, to create : an online tool which supports employers to help staff to travel in more active and greener ways.

A better Way to Work

Way To Work is a one-stop-shop for funding, training, support, awards, challenges competitions and travel planning opportunities from across the country in one place.

The site guides employers and staff to information on walking, cycling, car-sharing, public transport, and features the latest active and sustainable travel news.聽

Having all sustainable travel updates in one place makes it easier for workplaces to create greener and long-term changes to their organisation, which will improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce.

Why should businesses be more active?

Fostering a healthier workplace culture benefits both employees and organisations as a whole.

Research has shown that having

Even small changes, such as encouraging people to swap short journeys made by car or public transport with walking or cycling can make a huge difference, helping to save organisations money, and resulting in happier employees.

Accreditations such as the聽聽award or being a聽 shows that a workplace cares about their workforce and strives to improve all aspects of working life, making the organisation more attractive to potential new recruits.

Get active today

Using the Way To Work site is a simple way to help create positive, lasting changes to your workplace. From demonstrating corporate social responsibility to improving staff wellbeing, promoting active and sustainable travel in the workplace is a good return on investment for the employer and its workforce.

Find out more about our work in Scotland

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