Corporate Express is sponsoring National Walk to Work Day for its employees, and we’re encouraging our customers to do the same!

 

Why? Because there’s overwhelming evidence to prove that moderate physical activity (even 15 minutes before and after work each day), can significantly enhance well-being and productivity, and reduce absenteeism.

 

Managing Director, Grant Harrod, has signed up to become a Corporate Ambassador for National Walk to Work Day, having signed the pledge to support the program’s objectives, which are:

 

· To promote regular walking as a healthy activity (better physical, mental and social health)

· To reduce the reliance on the private motor vehicle (reduce car-dependency)

· To promote and improve the use of public transport (less traffic)

· To improve air quality by reducing unnecessary vehicle emissions (reduce global warming).

 

Run by the Pedestrian Council of Australia Limited, a non-profit organisation whose objectives include the promotion of walking as a legitimate form of transport, the program encourages employers and managers to set an example by participating themselves, and by encouraging employees to walk as part of commuting to work.

 

Everybody can be a Walking Class Hero! If you usually travel to work by public transport, get off a stop or two before you normally would, and walk the rest of the way. If you normally drive to work, and you live a fair distance away, why not leave your car a kilometre or two from work and walk the remaining distance?

 

If none of these are feasible, then you can still participate by walking for at least half an hour during lunch-time.

 

The program also encourages participating businesses to provide a Healthy Breakfast for their employees in the way of fruit, wholegrain breads, lightly-processed breakfast cereals, and lean bacon and scrambled eggs, and so on.