A health programme for office workers and hybrid teams

TriageFit is an office worker health programme sold as coaching seats: each person on a seat gets training, food and recovery coached around a working week spent mostly at a desk. The company buys seats a year at a time and sees who holds one and participation as group figures for the team, and nothing about how anyone uses their seat.

By TriageFit · Published

An office worker health programme has to fit into days spent mostly sitting down, cut into pieces by meetings and bookended by a commute or the walk from the kitchen table to the laptop. A lunchtime class reaches the few people who happen to be free at one o'clock, and a step challenge tends to last about as long as its leaderboard. TriageFit gives each person on a seat their own coaching, built around how their working week runs and the time they actually have to train.

Built around a week at a desk

Each person starts with an intake of about thirty minutes, which can be saved partway and picked up after the next meeting. It asks about their goals, their training history, injuries, where they can train and with what, how many days a week they have, how long a session can run and what time of day suits them, with a midday window among the choices. Their programme is built from those answers in phases our coaches designed, four to six weeks long and cycling for as long as they train, with every exercise drawn from a library of 382 and the main lifts shown on video.

If a lunch break shrinks for good, the AI coach can propose a shorter session length, and once the person confirms it the next block is built to fit. Where the health screen raises something a doctor should weigh in on, the person first gets their doctor's word that training is safe for them, and their programme is built after they tell the app so.

Mobility for long days sitting down

Plenty of people who sit for most of the day feel it in their hips and upper back. The intake includes a quick movement check, covering a deep squat, an overhead reach and a toe touch among other things, and a four-week mobility programme built from it works on the areas that came out weakest and progresses from there. The check can be retaken at any point, and the mobility work is built from the newest one, so it moves on as those areas loosen. Before each session a warm-up circuit is matched to what the session trains, with any tight spots the person flags worked in, and if something hurts, the AI coach proposes a swap that works around it and says when a physio should see it.

Moving more on office days

Easy-pace cardio is planned around the lifting, either as a short finisher or on days of its own, with a heart-rate range that keeps the easy pace easy. Anyone who wears an Apple Watch, a Garmin, a Whoop, an Oura ring or a Fitbit can upload an export from the device's own app, and the activity in it comes in too, so the walking on days without a session is on the person's record as well.

Food between meetings

Each person's calorie target is matched to their metabolism, their macros adjust from week to week and protein is spread across the day. A lunch someone eats most weeks can be saved with its macros and logged again without typing it out, and a day when a meeting ran through lunch and the only option was a sandwich from the shop downstairs is logged against the same targets as any other.

Stress, sleep and the working week

Sleep regularity and quality sit beside the training, along with resting heart rate and daily readiness, and stress and nervous-system check-ins are kept in the same place. Once a week the check-in asks for five quick ratings, for energy, recovery, motivation, sleep and stress, so a fortnight of late finishes is on the record before the next week is planned. A coaching message comes back within seconds of sending it, and a real coach reads the same check-in. All of it belongs to the person and stays on their own account.

When a deadline takes the week

Some weeks a launch, a quarter-end or an audit takes every spare hour. The person tells the AI coach, and it can take the volume and intensity down in that day's session, move a session to another day or, when the tiredness has built up, offer a recovery week. Each change waits for the person to confirm it. From Wednesday a short note from the AI coach sits on the dashboard with a look at how the week is going, so a week that is slipping gets noticed before it ends.

What the company sees

An organisation admin sees the roster: who has been invited, who has accepted and how many seats are still free. The report is one printable document of group figures for the whole team, such as how many people joined, how many finished the intake and how many were active in the past month, built fresh each time it is opened and with any figure below five people held back. A person's training, food logs, sleep, ratings and check-ins stay on their own account, and a billing admin cannot open the report. The corporate terms make taking a seat voluntary and bar the company from using whether someone accepted in any decision about them, and when the company invites people it tells them the seat is optional and that it sees only the roster and group figures. The data processing agreement sets out what TriageFit handles on the company's behalf and what stays with each person.

An insurance office in Cork

Take an insurance broker in Cork whose staff are in the office three days a week and at home for two, and which buys 25 seats. The HR lead sends the invitations from the People tab and says at the next all-hands that taking a seat is optional and that the company sees only the roster and group figures. A claims handler who sits for most of the day works through the intake over two evenings, picks forty-five minutes at midday and gets three sessions a week at a gym near the office, with a mobility programme working on the overhead reach the movement check flagged. When quarter-end fills a week, the AI coach proposes moving one session to the Saturday and trimming another, and the claims handler confirms both. A month in, the report shows how many people finished the intake and how many were active in the past month, and names nobody.

What the seats cost

A seat costs the same whether someone trains at home or near the office, and the price per seat falls as the pack grows: €500 a seat for 10 to 24 seats, €450 a seat for 25 to 49 seats, €415 a seat for 50 to 99 seats and €375 for 100 or more, with VAT included. Every seat in a pack is charged at the band the pack's size lands in, so 25 seats cost €450 each, €11,250 for the year. Card works in every currency, and a pack billed in euro can also be paid by SEPA direct debit. Seats can be added whenever the team grows, charged pro rata for the rest of the year, and a smaller pack takes effect at renewal.

How to start

Work out a total with the calculator on the business page, which needs no account. Buying needs an account, and the one that buys becomes the organisation's first admin. Checkout asks for the organisation's name, the number of seats and the currency, and for acceptance of the corporate terms and the data processing agreement, before payment. Up to 50 seats can be bought online, and a bigger office uses the enquiry form, where a real person replies by email. Corporate fitness programmes covers training for a whole team, and the employee wellness app shows what a seat looks like on someone's phone.

Questions people ask

Can people train in their lunch break?
Yes. The intake asks how long a session can run and what time of day suits each person, with a midday window among the choices, and the programme is built to fit. If a lunch break gets shorter for good, the AI coach can propose a shorter session length for the next block, and on a single busy day it can trim that day's session instead.
What does it do about long days sitting down?
The intake's quick movement check feeds a four-week mobility programme that works on each person's weakest areas and progresses as they improve. Each session has a warm-up matched to what it trains, easy-pace cardio fits around the lifting, and walking picked up by a watch or ring sits on the same record once its export is uploaded.
Does it suit staff who split the week between home and the office?
Yes. Each person tells the intake where they train and what equipment is there, and the programme is filled with exercises that suit it. If that changes, the AI coach can propose an equipment change. TriageFit runs in a browser on a phone or a laptop, and it can be added to the home screen, where it opens like an app.
Will managers see who is taking part?
Organisation admins see the roster, which shows who has been invited and who has accepted, and nothing about what anyone does after that. The corporate terms bar the company from using whether someone accepted or declined in any decision about them, and the report holds only group figures, with anything below five people held back.

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