Have employer based fit tracker programs fallen out of favor?

anglyn1

kimny72 wrote: »

The company I work for had a walking challenge where they gave everyone knock-off trackers, with rewards for the most steps per week. An inordinate amount of participants were showing six figure steps every week. Combined with many of them bragging to others that they had put the trackers on their dogs all day or found the right way to swing your arm to get a step registered and just swung their arm while watching TV all weekend, the program was scrapped.

I love my Fitbit and the affect it has had on my activity level, but considering lots of people say they aren't accurate for them, it might be hard to use them as the primary way to measure activity for all participants.

My mother in law's office had a year long contest and the people that exceeded x amount of steps won a 2 day beach trip with the top stepper getting a bigger weeklong trip to Disney. Lots of people did the putting the fitbit on their dog's collar or their kids in the evenings. Needless to say I think well over 100 people qualified for the 2 day trip so I'm sure this contest did not go the way the hoped financially and probably won't be repeated.