CooliBlade encourages employees to find a balance between private and business life. We recognize that nowadays, the pressure and stress in business life are also increasing the load on individuals. So it has been natural for us to support our employees to exercise their physical activity in different ways to offer appropriate balance for individual persons’ mental and physical load.
We have done our best to build active team spirit at CooliBlade, which makes it easy to exercise and increase workplace team spirit. One practical example is that Cooliblade offers bike benefits to all employees. This means all employees can choose the most suitable and preferred leasing bike, and the cost is shared between the company and the employee. This is a tax-free benefit for employees. We have noticed that this encourages our employees to move by bike frequently.
This year, our bicycling activists decided to attend also national bicycling contest, Talvikilometrikisa 2023 (https://www.kilometrikisa.fi/contests/talvikilometrikisa-2023/teams/electric/). We took part in the electric bike series, and our team, Martti, Severi, and Kimmo, finished second in the electric bike series. These guys biked 1087,0 km in two months on average per person. Outstanding achievement, and congrats to the guys. It has been great to see that the team has become enthusiastic about biking outside of the contest in the past year. The captain of our biking team Martti has biked over 6500 kilometers in the past 12 months.
Oulu is known for well-built roads for bicycling, and it is easy to move to all places in Oulu by bike. The city of Oulu is also known for its winter bicycling. Media has also recognized this and even BBC reported this ‘cycle-mad city in Finland’ that cycles year-round. If you like to know more, please see the BBC video on how the snow doesn’t stop Oulu residents using their bikes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-64354089
Bicycling is one of many ways CooliBlade supports the employees’ physical activity. We also offer a weekly Padel training session for all employees, and it has been great to see how active we are in this sport. All employees are taking part in Padel sessions weekly basis. This a great way of managing stress and supporting wellbeing at work!
