Challenge On: Over 51,000 Emirates Group employees have accepted the Dubai Fitness Challenge since 2017, as workforce gears up for 2024 edition

• Group promotes civilization of wellness and wellness by supporting 30 antithetic hobby and sports clubs, runs year-round wellness consciousness campaigns nether its Sehaty programme
• Engages workforce during DFC done classes and fittingness events crossed Dubai, successful summation to incentivised travel

Recognising the value of wellness and wellbeing successful sustaining a productive and blessed workforce, the Emirates Group has been wholeheartedly supporting and participating successful the Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC) since its aboriginal days, inspiring its employees to clasp fittingness and pb healthier lifestyles.

The momentum continues each year, with implicit 51,000 Emirates Group employees successful the UAE having participated successful the yearly fittingness festival since 2017, clocking successful millions of minutes and calories burned done carnal activity, arsenic good arsenic attending thousands of fittingness classes.

The Dubai Fitness Challenge is acceptable to commencement successful conscionable 4 days, and the Emirates Group is erstwhile again encouraging its workforce to participate and implicit 30 minutes of workout each time for 30 days, oregon 30X30, with an added inducement for each eligible participants who implicit the situation receiving 1 escaped formation summons to anyplace connected the Emirates network.

Dubai-based employees tin footwear disconnected the month-long solemnisation of wellness with an endless prime of escaped classes crossed the city, enactment successful sporting events and radical workout sessions, enactment successful the world’s largest assemblage sporting events – Dubai Run and Dubai Ride - oregon proceed with their favourite fittingness activities arsenic they marque each stride number towards their ain wellness and wellness goals.

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive for Emirates Airline & Group said: “The Emirates Group has been a long-standing protagonist of the Dubai Fitness Challenge. Over the years, Emirates has activated well-known planetary teams and leagues we sponsor to rise planetary visibility for the event, organised affable challenges to show worker camaraderie and squad spirit, and person organised a divers docket of fittingness events, trainings and classes afloat tally by our teams, collectively contributing to Dubai’s extremity of becoming 1 of the world’s astir progressive cities.”

His Highness added: “As a institution that cares, we prioritise the wellness and wellbeing of our workforce arsenic a invaluable investment. Throughout the year, we tally a gamut of worker wellness programmes, enactment our worker sports clubs and beforehand policies that align with our people’s wellness goals and interests.  This fosters a civilization of health, helps our marque to basal retired and supports our recruitment and retention efforts, laying the instauration for a stronger and much resilient business.”

Emirates Group’s ‘Sehaty’ programme (which means ‘my health’ successful Arabic), runs year-round carnal and intelligence wellness consciousness campaigns, preventative screenings, and wellness and wellbeing roadshows and webinars. A fig of teams from crossed the Group assistance spearhead Sehaty initiatives, including Emirates Group Medical Services, Clinical Psychology, the Group’s Employee Assistance Programme, Peer Support, Group Safety and Human Resources. Highly trained aesculapian professionals from the Group’s Medical Services squad regularly enactment wellness and wellbeing campaigns by distilling analyzable concepts into accessible, actionable cognition for employees to integrate into their enactment and idiosyncratic life.

There are besides much than 30 antithetic sports and hobby clubs, and manner activities managed and tally by Emirates Group employees passim the twelvemonth ranging from football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, cricket, cycling, rugby, snowboarding, scuba diving and skydiving, amongst different sports. Recognising the value of the clubs arsenic portion of its civilization of health, The Emirates Group offers paid leave, question enactment and backing to employees who correspond UAE nationalist teams arsenic good arsenic the organisation itself, astatine large sporting events, including inter-airline tournaments.

During DFC, worker fittingness experts clasp escaped classes crossed the Group’s facilities, and teams tin avail peculiar discounts and offers astatine participating Dubai-based wellness clubs and gyms. Throughout the period and crossed the year, employees regularly person supportive health, nutrition, fittingness and intelligence wellness tips and tricks.

As a marque with a affluent sports sponsorship portfolio, worker sports enthusiasts person been fortunate to acquisition once-in-a-lifetime, money-can’t-buy moments implicit the years, which see the Group’s women’s hoops squad shooting hoops with NBA fable Isiah Thomas arsenic portion of the airline’s planetary concern announcement with the league; the Group’s cycling squad investigating their carnal skills and endurance against satellite champion UAE Team Emirates during the opening of the 2018 Dubai Fitness Challenge; 1 of the members of the Group’s sailing nine swapping jobs with Sir Ben Ainslie, apical Olympic sailor and Driver of the Emirates GBR SailGP Team for a day; and 9 fortunate Emirates Group cricket teams taking portion successful a mini-match connected the DXB tarmac, umpired by Indian planetary cricketer Shikhar Dhawan, to footwear disconnected the Emirates sponsored ICC Men’s T20 World Cup successful 2021.

 The Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC) runs from 26 October to 24 November 2024.

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