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Virgin Pulse

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What is Virgin Pulse?

Virgin Pulse is an online platform that encourages employees to cultivate productive daily habits and a healthy company culture. It aims to improve employee productivity and corporate performance by supporting employee wellness. The three core pieces of the platform are: a tracking system for personal and workplace wellness metrics, a hub that connects to other HR programs, and a rewards engine.

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Reviews

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Such a different approach to employee wellness

Incentivized
Kevin McLennanView profile
Relationship Manager in Human Resources at Anhesuer Busch InBev (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Virgin Pulse] addressed a need in the business to improve employee engagement and at the same time [addressing] the need for increased wellness practices.

Pros

  • Creates healthy competition in the business
  • allows employee to track fitness and wellness methods
  • allows employees to great teams to join and compete

Cons

  • Create more ways for those who are not so fit to engage
  • refine communication on challenges (spam mail)
  • give tips to team leaders to boost team performance

Most Important Features

  • Team collaboration
  • fitness tracking
  • meditation and wellness

Return on Investment

  • Has improved employee morale
  • created healthy competition between teams
  • can be hard to drive app downloads

Other Software Used

Workplace from Meta

[In My Opinion,] AVOID Virgin Pulse!!

Verified User
Employee in Customer Service (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Nothing because [I feel] they are horrible.

Cons

  • Integrity and confidentiality
  • Products
  • Customer service
  • Value

Most Important Features

  • None

Return on Investment

  • No ROI other than if the people chose not to use it, then the company saves money.
  • [I believe] it causes people's personal information to be disseminated without any concern.
  • [In my opinion,] they are not willing to help ever.

Other Software Used

Fitbit, Apple Health

My Virgin Pulse Review

Incentivized
Brandon JohnsonView profile
Human Resources Information System Analyst in Human Resources at Genworth (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • AMAZING app
  • Great communications
  • Awesome compatibility across systems/apps

Cons

  • They could always keep adding more device compatibility

Return on Investment

  • Though we could not see individual employee data, we were able to see who met their overall fitness goals/requirements that assisted in different awards for the year.
  • Better moral/encouragement for employees to feel and be healthy
  • AWESOME analytics team! They have worked with us to also learn new ways of thinking and strategies to attack some of the data

Alternatives Considered

Gilsbar

Virgin Pulse - Simple and Addicting!

Incentivized
Andrea BrooksView profile
HR Manager in Human Resources at Cengage Learning (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • The mobile app is very easy to check into each day.
  • The rewards platform was easy to use and rewards arrived timely.
  • There were ways to be social within the platform. That was fun!

Cons

  • Sometimes, my Fitbit and even my Max device would have issues synching.
  • There weren't daily challenges, like the Fitbit. That made me have to use both apps, which was more work.

Return on Investment

  • I don't have any information yet on this.

Great for employee performance

Incentivized
Verified User
Director in Marketing (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Boosting performance
  • Analyzing data

Cons

  • I'd like if the interface was easier to use, it is great the way it is but sometimes it is a little confusing to new users.

Return on Investment

  • ROI is good as it enhances peoples performance which benefits the business.