About the Company
DLA Plus is a full-service architecture and interior design firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2008, the firm works across commercial, healthcare, education, and government sectors — delivering design solutions with a strong emphasis on people-centred workplaces. With a lean, distributed team, DLA Plus recognises that employee health and engagement directly shapes the quality of their creative output.
Key Objective
"Our prime aim is to host a Winter Step Challenge for our employees, providing them the opportunity to kick-start 2022 with a healthy and fit regimen."
The Challenge
- DLA Plus was looking for an online wellness platform to run a step challenge that would motivate employees to start the new year with a healthy routine — and sustain it throughout the year.
- The HR team needed separate dashboards for organisers and participants to easily track real-time progress throughout the challenge.
- With a distributed workforce, they required a fully virtual platform that removed time-zone and location constraints, making participation accessible for every employee.
The Approach
- Vantage Fit powered a step challenge under the campaign name "Step It Up in 2022" — running for 3 weeks from 10th to 30th January 2022.
- Employees were challenged to walk the most steps over the program duration, with redeemable rewards issued to participants who hit their targets.
- Both HR administrators and employees got access to a gamified dashboard and leaderboard, giving full transparency on daily step counts and overall standings.
Results
More than 30 DLA Plus employees took on the Winter Step Challenge — and the results showed strong, sustained engagement throughout all three weeks.
- 87% of employees participated, well above the industry benchmark.
- Every participant covered an average distance of 66 kilometres over the full 3-week period.
- The entire workforce accumulated over 1,495,800 steps collectively.
- On average, each employee burned approximately 2,905 kilocalories during the challenge.
