PBN 2021 HEALTHIEST EMPLOYERS AWARDS 15-499 EMPLOYEES: 5. Cooley Group
CEO (or equivalent): Daniel Dwight, CEO and president
Number of employees:195
Cooley Group may have faced new challenges throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing stayed the same: the success of its Wellness Walking Competition, now 12 years strong.
Cooley provides step trackers to all employees and twice a year runs a challenge coordinated through the Virgin Pulse app.
A HEALTHY THOUGHT
‘For the past 12-plus years, we have conducted biannual walking challenges for all our employees, with at least an 85% participation rate.’
DEBRA BEDROSIAN, Cooley Group director of human resources
At Cooley, reaching 10,000 steps in the challenge earns a vacation day, a prize that employees, or the 85% of the workforce w/ c 090ho regularly participate, have come to really value.
“It works out to nearly 300 eight-hour vacation days a year. We call it a wellness vacation day,” said Debra Bedrosian, vice president of human resources and social responsibility at the Pawtucket-based manufacturer of engineered membranes. “We’re just so pleased that in the middle of all this with COVID, we kept everyone safe and healthy. It’s been a struggle.”
