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A reward and punishment scheme to
encourage fitness in office workers, that
uses a swipe card system.
Swipe your card to access the stairs and
gain points, which are accumulated when
you swipe again at the floor of destination.
Swipe your card to use the lift, and loose
points if you
go less than five floors. Less
able are exempt. Donate rewards gained
to a charity.
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Wonderful idea, so it gets a bun from me... but are we talking monetary rewards? If you get a negative amount of points, do they take the amount out of your paycheck? |
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not sure of that kind of detail, but the
advantages of a fitter staff would soon
pay dividends for any company so
money could be offered - and thanks
for croissant 21 Quest. |
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A nice croissant for a nice idea :-) |
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(note: I especially love this idea because I work in a one-story building, mwahaha) |
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I surely like it very much. I'd quite like it if the rewards were of the kind which meant when you wanted a lift, it arrived very quickly. |
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What prevents someone from tailgating their way on to the lift without swiping the card? |
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a huge bank of rotating knives |
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This idea would cause deaths in hospitals, elevators/lifts are not just for lazy people. |
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//This idea would cause deaths in
hospitals// duhh that's why it says
"office workers" and the "less able are
exempt" - I give up - think I need a
bakery holiday. |
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Actually, xenzag, it doesn't mention office workers being exempt, because those are the ones who, I thought, it was aimed at. But you also never said it should be used in hospitals, firestations, or anywhere else where it might endanger anyone. At office buildings (like call centers or law firms or other such places) where employees spend most of their work time sitting on their butts, this is a great idea. If my call center had more than one floor, I'd love to have this implemented there. |
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Besides, Chef, how is this going to cause deaths? A lot of areas in hospitals are already restricted with code-locked doors. When someone needs to be rushed down the hallway, they have someone run ahead to unlock the doors before they get there. This doesn't change anything in that regard. |
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I do have one question, though: How do customers, visitors, or patients who don't have employee badges get up or down? I guess you could have segregated stairways/lifts for employees and non-employees. The non-employee ones could have RFID sensors to set off an alarm if an employee badge is detected going through the door. To prevent leaving the badges in the office and going up and down regardless, have a computer and video camera to keep track of who goes through, and if an employee is caught cheating, fine him. |
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Or am I overcomplicating the issue? |
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You would have to be grossly unfit in the first place to receive any tangible benefit from using stairs instead of lifts. Unless you're going up and down all day - but in that case I would suggest that your office is on the wrong floor. |
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Time is money. Hence the lift. |
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//This idea would cause deaths in hospitals// do you mean to tell me there are no office workers in hospitals? Take your holiday, just not the lift. |
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texticle, that is just not true. It's the small, routine daily exercises that keep people fit. If every day you used the stairs to get to your office instead of the elevator, that's a lot of calories you're burning every day that you weren't burning in the elevator. A simple walk around the block every day is enough to keep many people slim as a whip. Besides which, the psychological effect of encouraging employees not to take shortcuts by rewarding them will result in an unwitting increase in the quality of their work, by getting them in the habit of doing what is right, not what is most convenient. |
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Xenzag, take a nice, long holiday, and come back refreshed and ready to bake some more great ideas like this one. |
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Perhaps the negative consequesnces are just that it takes longer to get the positive ones. If I never take the stairs it will take me a lot longer to get my overall score turned around. If I always take the stairs, it means that the few times I do take the elevator, it is a loss that is easily compensated for. |
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The penalty for being caught doing this
is being drowned a tank of frogspawn in
a public place. It's just not worth the
risk. |
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If the rewards are monetary, wouldn't someone NOT do work and just run up and down stairs all day? You'd prolly get a ton of money for doing that ha. |
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There's a more severe
punishment for that again. It can't even
be
written down, it's so horrible, but I can
tell you that it involves lots of elastic
bands and bags of soot. |
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This is an excellent idea, and I plan to incorporate it into my suggestion for revisions to national health care policy (keep watching the HB main page). |
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To overcome the whole swipe card issue, use RFID tags. The tag doesn't need to be actively swiped, and visitors simply don't register with the system at all.
Good idea - bun from me. |
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in order to use the lift you have to demonstrate a bodyfat percentage of <x. |
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