How a Manufacturing Company Engaged Employees Through Simple, Trackable Daily Actions

Quick Snapshot

• Company: A glove manufacturing company
• Industry: Manufacturing – world’s most innovative glove manufacturer
• Challenge: Motivate priority employees (shift workers, BMI>28, chronic conditions) to adopt healthier habits
• Solution: DEBI digitalized step tracking and rewarded participation with points redeemable for vouchers and wellness rewards
• Results: Centralized wellness tracking, increased engagement, tangible rewards, motivated healthier habits, and digital efficiency

Promoting Wellness, One Step at a Time

Operating in Sepang, this glove manufacturing company has built a reputation for high-quality products and innovation. Employee wellness and engagement are key priorities within its workplace culture.

To support these objectives, the company partnered with DEBI to launch a branded wellness challenge, “10K Steps Mania”, running from 19 November to 18 January. This gamified program encouraged employees to adopt healthier daily habits while making participation fun and rewarding.

Challenge: Supporting At-Risk Employees Without Singling Them Out

As a large manufacturing organization with a predominantly shift-based workforce, the company identified a growing need to better support employees who were at higher health risk, including those with higher BMI and chronic conditions.

While wellness initiatives already existed, they faced several challenges:

• Targeted programs often risked low participation due to stigma or lack of motivation
• Shift workers found it difficult to commit to fixed-time activities
• Manual tracking made it hard to monitor progress or sustain momentum
• Engagement typically dropped after the initial launch period

The company needed a solution that could encourage healthier daily habits among priority employee groups, without isolating them or making participation feel forced. The goal was to create a program that felt inclusive, motivating, and easy to sustain, while still delivering measurable health-related outcomes.

Solution: Using Movement as a Universal Entry Point

To address this, the company partnered with DEBI to launch a branded wellness challenge, running from 19 November to 18 January.

Instead of designing a program that explicitly targeted BMI or medical conditions, the company used daily step goals as a neutral, accessible entry point. Walking required no special equipment, could be done across different shifts, and allowed employees of varying fitness levels to participate at their own pace.

DEBI enabled the company to:

• Digitalize step tracking through a single platform
• Set a clear daily goal of 10,000 steps
• Reward consistent participation using a points-based reward system redeemable for everyday vouchers
• Monitor engagement and progress centrally, without manual reporting

This approach allowed the company to reach its priority groups indirectly, encouraging healthier movement habits while maintaining dignity, inclusivity, and autonomy for employees.

Results: Driving Engagement and Measurable Impact

• Centralized wellness tracking: DEBI provided a single platform for managing the “10K Steps Mania” challenge for all priority employees.
• Increased engagement: ~300 employees actively participating, logging 54,490,922 steps collectively.
• Tangible rewards: Employees earned redeemable points and used them to get vouchers, making their efforts directly meaningful.
• Motivation & health impact: Gamified tracking and redeemable rewards encouraged sustained participation and healthier habits.
• Digital efficiency: Reduced administrative work by digitalizing step tracking and reward management, eliminating manual tracking and paper-based systems.

Transforming Employee Wellness with DEBI

The company’s “10K Steps Mania” demonstrates how DEBI transforms corporate wellness initiatives. By linking activity to tangible, redeemable rewards, employees improve their health, engage with one another, and strengthen workplace culture, showing that digitalized wellness can be both effective and fun.

DEBI is a digital behavioural change platform that helps companies drive engagement, personal wellness, and workplace safety. It enables organizations to run gamified wellness challenges, track employee activities such as steps, sleep, and mood, conduct surveys and events, and reward positive behaviours—turning everyday actions into measurable achievements.

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