Designing corporate wellness people actually attend
Intensity, timing, dress code, food. The unglamorous details that decide whether half the team turns up.
WOTT Editorial · with Corporate programming desk · Reviewed 1 August 2026
Placeholder article. Attendance is a design problem. The programme that half the office skips is usually too intense, too early, or requires a change of clothes nobody was told to bring.
The checklist
- Keep first sessions low to medium intensity.
- Say exactly what to wear, in the calendar invite.
- Feed people afterwards, not before.
- Run it inside working hours if you want real numbers.
Sources
- WOTT corporate briefs, 2026 (internal, anonymised)
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