CW: Sleep shaming (?!)
Dear readers, as someone who identifies as a cheerful cynic, I thought I could not be surprised by the weird depths workplace wellness progerams will sink to. I was wrong. A reader submitted this example from Virgin Pulse, which is part of the Virgin Group (of music, airlines, trains, space…and now corporate wellness fame). You earn points for doing activities listed on tiles, and then you can turn those points into gift cards to major retailers or into money for a health savings account. Yes, this program, like many workplace wellness programs, gamifies your health. Yay!
That is all garden-variety horror at this point, but the app takes it a few steps further by telling you to stop being a layabout and just get up already (and go to work, you slacker!). Yes, Virgin Pulse wants to bully you out of bed in the morning.
And what do we do to bullies? We deface their work!
