OneTwo Home Loans
Australian home lending startup prioritizes employee engagement & wellness
Company Spotlight
OneTwo Home Loans
Company: OneTwo Home Loans
Organizer: Kimberly Fitton, Product Specialist, Program Manager
Company Size: 60
Challenger Size: 27
Duration: One Month
Challenge Types: Classic Steps, Exercise, Meditation
Context & Goals
We are a start-up, and predominantly a remote company; so we try and do a lot of virtual type events that promote togetherness — coming together around something that’s not actually work. We did a challenge on Count.It [Classic] last year too.
We’ve done this every year for a few years. It’s just one of the annual things, and the team looks forward to it. We usually run a wellness focus for a month. This year we organized it around Mental Health Day. We brought in speakers, and organized meditation sessions, and things like that. And we ran the fitness challenge for the month.
The steps and exercise drive the most engagement. We’re a company with people in their thirties, forties, and fifties, so still relatively active, and anything where people can bring their own version of fitness is good.
The Challenge
The new leaderboard was awesome! People were engaging with that. And the ability to set up the challenges was easy.
I ran three challenges with different focuses, including a couple of mini challenges: We had walking challenge, an exercise challenge, and a meditation challenge.
Because we are a tech company, the data sync’ing and tracker compatibility was super important. Real time syncing is super important to tech people, and I didn’t hear any grumbles about it.
Roadmap Suggestions
If we were able to do the teams, and if there was an ability to punching in everyone’s name and it would put them into teams that would be awesome.
Editor’s note: Coming to Count.It November 2023!!!
It would be good also to have a bit more “way finding,” communications to guide us during onboarding and help people get set up — that would be great.
Another thing, probably an edge case: Make sure there are challenges, or ways to participate, for anyone that has kind of any impediment.
Last, having the option to procure wearables for people who don’t have them would be helpful.
