Battle of the Bay!

HotelExecutive.com, a big hospitality industry trade, picked up our story about what we’ve been doing with the Hyatt Hotels of San Francisco, and now a bunch of other hospitality trades are jumping on it! Here’s the killer lede…

In the employee cafeterias of the three San Francisco Hyatt Hotels, employees are glued to the big screens — but they are not following a crosstown playoff series between the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. Instead, they’re tracking a brightly colored, ever-changing leaderboard showing which hotel, and which employees, are on top on any given day. Human Resource managers at each property issue weekly email propaganda, including, in one notable case, a digitally altered hip hop dance video featuring the three hotel General Managers urging their people into the fray.

What’s going on? The leaderboards in question are continuously fed by employees’ fitness tracking apps and wearable devices, and people are battling to see which hotel is the fittest of them all.