Circle the globe as a company: one planet-sized walking challenge
Here is a virtual walking challenge for companies that everybody can picture in a second: the whole company walks around the Earth. Not one heroic person, the whole company. Every step from every employee pools into one shared total, and together you cover the 40,075 km it takes to circle the planet. It is a goal big enough to feel real, and shaped so nobody gets left on the sidelines.
One goal, everyone's steps in the same pool
Most step challenges quietly turn into a race between the same handful of already-fit people. A leaderboard sorts everyone from most to least, the top three pull away by day two, and everybody else stops looking. The people a wellbeing program should reach the most are the first to opt out.
The circle-the-globe format flips that. There is one number, and it belongs to the company: 40,075 km, the circumference of the Earth. Every step anyone logs adds to it. The 6am dog-walker moves the total exactly as much as the marathoner does, step for step. You are not ranked against your colleagues, you are building something with them.
That shared total does something a leaderboard never can. When the company is at 31,000 km and closing in on the finish, an ordinary Tuesday walk suddenly matters, because it is the walk that helps get everyone there. Momentum is shared, and so is the finish.
Why a collective goal beats a leaderboard
A leaderboard rewards the people who were going to win anyway and benches everyone else. A collective goal is the opposite. It is additive, not competitive, and that changes who takes part.
- Nobody is benched for being slow. There is no bottom of the table to land in. Every step you take is a step the company needed.
- The quiet walkers matter. The person who logs 4,000 steps a day, five days a week, contributes an enormous share over a month. In a collective goal that shows up as progress, not as a low rank.
- Progress is visible and shared. Watching one map fill in as the company inches around the planet is a story everyone can follow, from the CEO to the newest hire.
- It fits any fitness level. You do not need to be athletic to help walk around the Earth. You just need to move a little more than yesterday.
How everyone-can-win actually works
This is the part that makes the whole thing fair. The core model is not fittest-wins. When the company reaches the shared goal, everyone who helped reach it goes into a random draw for the prize.
Reach the goal, you are in the draw. Your fitness level is irrelevant to your odds. A person who walked a steady 5,000 steps a day has the same chance as the one who ran half-marathons on the weekend, because both of them helped the company circle the globe. The prize is a reward for taking part in a shared win, not a trophy for being the fastest.
You can shape the goal to fit your team. Run 40,075 km as a full-company challenge over a month or a quarter, or scale a shorter leg for a smaller team or a two-week sprint. The metaphor works at every size: a team can walk the length of a country, the whole company can circle the planet.
How to actually run one
The idea is fun. The running of it should be boring, in the best way. Here is the loop from the admin side:
- Set the distance target. Pick 40,075 km for the full company, or a smaller leg for a team or a shorter window. Set the prize once.
- Invite the company. Employees join and track steps from the native iOS and Android apps. No wearable required, no spreadsheets, no honour-system reporting.
- Watch the map fill in. The collective distance updates as steps come in, so everyone can see how close the company is to closing the loop.
- Rewards auto-handled. When the goal is reached, the random draw runs and built-in gift-card fulfillment gets the prize to the winner. You never make a gift-card run.
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The practical part for HR
The globe metaphor is the hook, but the reasons it is easy to say yes to are practical. Movemint is fully bilingual in English and French, so every employee takes part in their own language. It runs on native iOS and Android apps with a web admin dashboard, so participation is not gated on owning a particular wearable. Employee data is stored in Canada, in Amazon Web Services' Canadian region (ca-central-1, in Montreal), which gives you a clean answer in any privacy review. It collects step count, distance, and calories only. No heart rate, sleep, GPS or location, weight, or medical data.
Pricing is a flat $1.50 USD per employee per month, with the CAD equivalent shown for Canadian companies, billed monthly with no annual contract. Prizes are funded and distributed through built-in gift-card fulfillment, so the most annoying part of running a challenge is off your desk.
Walk around the world with your team
Set one goal, pool everyone's steps, and let everyone who reaches it into the draw. Bilingual, $1.50 USD/employee/month with a CAD equivalent shown, billed monthly with no annual contract, and employee data stored in Canada.
Get StartedFrequently asked questions
What is a virtual walking challenge for companies?
It is a wellbeing activity where employees track their steps from their own phones and those steps count toward a shared goal. In the circle-the-globe format, every step from every person pools into one collective total, and the team walks the 40,075 km circumference of the Earth together.
Does the fittest employee win?
No. The core model is not fittest-wins. Everyone who helps reach the shared goal goes into a random draw for the prize, so a 6am dog-walker has the same chance as a marathon runner. Every step counts equally toward the collective total.
How long does it take to circle the globe?
That is up to you. You can set 40,075 km as a full-company goal over a month or a quarter, or scale a shorter leg for a smaller team or a two-week sprint. The platform tracks the collective distance as it fills in.
How do winners get their prizes?
You set the prizes once in the admin dashboard and built-in gift-card fulfillment handles distribution to the drawn winners. You never buy or mail a gift card yourself.
Is Movemint bilingual and where is data stored?
Movemint is fully bilingual in English and French, with native iOS and Android apps plus a web admin dashboard. Employee data is stored in Canada, in Amazon Web Services' Canadian region (ca-central-1, in Montreal).
Before you talk to anyone
We would rather you work out whether a step challenge fits your workforce than sit through a pitch. These three pages do that job, and none of them need a sales call.
- Is Movemint right for you? The honest buyer's guide, including who Movemint is not for.
- Check if Movemint fits your team. Three questions about your workforce, then a straight answer.
- Step challenge cost and ROI calculator. What a challenge actually costs at your headcount.