The TakeCare Level30 app that the hotel chain’s employees can download for free allows them to link up and go head-to-head in game-like scenarios designed to boost healthy and positive actions daily. “We established TakeCare as a wellbeing initiative many years ago to give associates easy, efficient ways to improve their health and happiness,” says David Rodriguez, executive vice president and global chief human resources officer at Marriott International. “Today, it has become a global movement fueled by a universal passion for opportunity, community, and purpose,”
Some of the early gains from a beta test of the app include employees reading over 37,000 minutes, meditating more than 11,000 minutes and drinking more than 5,500 liters of water. “We developed the app with the notion that it takes 30 days to build a habit,” says Leah Evert, global director of associate wellbeing at Marriott International. “The activities are tied to personal wellbeing, connecting with others, and caring for the environment–all a part of what makes working at Marriott International so rewarding for associates–and achievable within 30 days.”