For regular readers of this blog, you know that the national implementation trial showed that BeUpstanding works to support workers to sit less and move more and create a supportive culture for change. But we didn’t stop with that success. We wanted to know how do we make BeUpstanding not just effective, but easier to run, easier to scale, and easier to sustain? Our new study explores how we worked with all our end users to help answer those questions – and how a user-centred design (UCD) process helped evolve BeUpstanding into a more flexible and future-ready version of itself: BeUpstanding 2.0. Why redesign a program that already works? The national implementation trial showed that BeUpstanding does what it sets out to do: help workers sit less and move more. But it also surfaced a very practical barrier for workplaces: Running the program across more than one team was harder than it needed to be. Managers wanted an easy way to run and monitor the program across multiple teams. Champions wanted more training and weekly guidance. Hybrid work had changed the way teams connected. And everyone wanted clearer, simpler ways to keep people engaged. Rather than patching around the edges,…
