Visma Sirius x HeiaHeia: Boosting Activity with the Fitness pass

Background

Visma Sirius has consistently promoted employee activity as part of its culture, offering exercise and recreation benefits alongside annual activity challenges and wellbeing challenges. These efforts, initially managed using basic tools like Excel, eventually led the HR team to seek a more streamlined solution. The goal was to enhance efficiency in challenge management, track progress more effectively, and inspire broader participation among employees. 

Solution

In late 2023, Visma Sirius evaluated various options on the market and chose HeiaHeia, finding it the best fit for their needs.

"The onboarding process was smooth, and we had a clear understanding of what was happening at each stage. Interaction with HeiaHeia’s customer service team has been seamless, with quick responses and flexible scheduling.

HeiaHeia provided valuable support especially during the early stages, offering practical help and examples of how other companies utilize the service. This allowed us to align solutions with our goals."

Sonja Lindstedt, People Operations Manager – Visma Sirius

Implementation

With the help of HeiaHeia, Visma Sirius aimed to support employee activity and wellbeing and fostering a culture that supports wellbeing.

HeiaHeia kicked off with a year-long fitness pass challenge, motivating employees to engage in 20 minutes of exercise each day. Throughout the challenge, participants worked towards earning 12 digital stamps over the year, fostering regular involvement and activity.

In addition to the fitness pass, shorter challenges with diverse themes were arranged. For instance, the four-week Mind Your Wellbeing challenge concentrated on mental health, promoting small but impactful actions and decisions to enhance psychological wellbeing, both personally and with peers. At the same time, the Try10 challenge motivated employees to explore ten different ways to be physical active.

In addition to gamified challenges and peer support, motivation was reinforced with rewards. In the fitness card challenge, participants who collected all 12 stamps received a wellness-related product reward. For shorter challenges, prizes were drawn among all who met their goals. The use of incentives increased engagement and added an extra layer of excitement to the challenges.

Results

HeiaHeia has been highly popular at Visma Sirius, with over 80% of employees becoming part of the company's HeiaHeia community. The outcomes show regular, daily use, indicating that this engagement is more than just a temporary fad.

In less than a year, Visma Sirius employees have achieved notable milestones, including significant activity and participation. In less than a year, Visma Sirius employees have achieved, among other things:

• 🔵 Nearly 50,000 entries in HeiaHeia, averaging 150 logged actions per day.
• ⏱️ Over 25,000 hours of collective activity—nearly 200 hours per participant.
• 🚴‍♂️ +30,000 exercised logged, with 265 different activity types.
• 🙌 Around 27,000 cheers and positive comments to colleagues, and hundreds of activities and images shared on the community wall
• ✅ More than 16,000 micro-actions promoting sleep, nutrition, mental wellbeing and sense of community. 
• 👟 Over 134 million steps taken, equivalent to more than two times the Earth's circumference.

Conclusion

The wellness year at Visma Sirius has been very successful, engaging and motivating a significant portion of employees.

HeiaHeia has provided a comprehensive and easily manageable solution, integrating three key elements: a fitness pass to encourage regular exercise, community challenges focused on diverse wellbeing themes, and a personalized wellbeing app. This strategy has kept wellbeing at the core year-round, enhancing both individual and organizational wellness goals.

HeiaHeia has firmly established itself as a vital part of Visma Sirius's workplace wellbeing strategy and will continue to be used in the same effective way in the future.