Health provided to workers at home
By Marco Holden Jeffery
For anyone working from home, staying active and healthy - both physically and mentally - can be difficult.
So when Push!Fitness managing director Andrew Ward was approached by shipping and logistics company ANL CMA CGM Group in March to run a three-month online fitness programs for its employees, he knew how valued exercise would be for those working remotely.
“Fitness is part of their lifestyle and how they manage stress and their physical and mental wellbeing, so we had to move really quickly to transition them from face-to-face fitness to online,” he said.
The Healthy@Home program ran throughout the first statewide lockdown, offering the company’s employees five classes per day, seven days a week, including everything...
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