On March 8th 2021 Expedia Group, global leader in online travel bookings, brought together their remote workforce in a fun, inclusive online team bonding event called ‘Ping Pong Fight Club’s Lockdown Challenge Show. The focus was to target wellbeing and inactivity, just two of the side effects from working at home during the pandemic. Your People Associates presented the industry’s top team engagement activities as part of a webinar series covering wellness strategies for the remote workforce.

Jyot Deol, Talent Acquisition Manager, EMEA Expedia Group commented “Ping Pong Fight Club’s Lockdown Challenge Show gave us lots of laughs and kept us all entertained. I would highly recommend the show to other businesses that want to introduce some fun to their teams in these not no-so-fun times.’”

Nicola Kleinmann, Co-founder at Your People Associates added: “Team Building activities like Ping Pong Fight Club’s Lockdown Challenge Show can be implemented with significant impact to overall employee wellbeing and performance. It is high-performing and engaged employees that will help organisations flex, pivot and thrive during these times of continuous global change”.

Adrian Leigh, CEO and Founder of Ping Pong Fight Club continued, “The Challenge Show is fun, active and inclusive where remote teams can participate, socialise, be entertained and embrace a new recreation!’ 

According to research conducted by Gallup, studying nearly 1.4 million employees, across 192 organisations in 34 countries, employee engagement literally drives growth. Highly engaged employees returned 22% more profitability, 21% more productivity and also showed significant lower absenteeism (37%).

Jim Harter Ph.D., Gallup's chief scientist of employee engagement and well-being continued “employee engagement continues to be an important predictor of company performance even in a tough economy”.

These findings have been backed by recent research published by Deloitte. For every £1 employers invest in mental health and wellbeing initiatives for their employees, they will, on average, get a £5 return on investment in terms of reduced absence and staff turnover (Deloitte, 2021). 

This second lockdown has been particularly hard during the winter months. Colder temperatures, coupled with the rise in COVID related mortality rates, has meant teams have undoubtedly been impacted by uncertainty, grief and isolation.  

While teams and managers are fighting hard to produce more output and become more efficient and productive, wellbeing initiatives go a long way injecting “compassion”, “team work”, “vitality” and “focus.

Your People Associates’ network of HR experts and HR tech capabilities allow companies to attract, hire, engage, retain and grow the high performance teams that will ensure business growth is achieved during this climate by transforming and adapting to external market opportunities.

About Expedia Group  

Expedia Group was established as a division of Microsoft in 1996 was spun off into a public company in 1999.  Expedia is an online travel shopping company for consumers and small business travel. The company is the second market second largest player in the online travel agencies market with over 24 million active Expedia Rewards members across 32 countries, more than 24,500 employees, 28 offices across 15 countries and reported annual revenue of 12 billion dollars in 2019. Its portfolio of companies includes Ebookers, Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Trivago and Vrbo. The Vanguard Group, Inc. is the company’s largest shareholder. 

About Your People Associates

Your People Associates delivers HR and Talent outsourcing consultancy services, enabling companies to offer their people the right level of support whether they are starting, scaling or soaring. The company’s network of HR experts and HR tech partners allow clients to attract, hire, engage, retain and grow high performing teams. Your People Associates is a privately held company based in London, United Kingdom. Customers include Balfour Beatty Vinci. For more information see https://www.yourpeople.associates, email info@yourpeople.associates or call +44(0)203 432 1828

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