Hotseat (Employer Version)
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health & Fitness | Free | MAD POW MEDIA SOLUTIONS, LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Turn short social breaks into meaningful activity with Hotseat, a health app that’s an anytime, anywhere addition to workplace wellness programs. Good for the non-athlete and active employee, Hotseat combats "sitting disease" by setting up a personal schedule of 2-minute activity breaks based on each employees' capability, comfort and calendar availability. Hotseat uses a system of nudges, social accountability and gameplay to get employees up and moving regularly throughout the day.
Employees create a personalized roster of activities:
- Pick from over 40 activities, including cardio, strength and stretch activities
- Consider intensity level so they pick activities they feel comfortable doing
- Have detailed how-to instructions to support proper performance
Employees set their micro-break schedule:
- Choose how many activity breaks they want to take each day
- Set when they do and don't want to receive these breaks
- Sync with their calendar availability or get breaks pushed at a selected scheduled frequency
Hotseat establishes a daily rotating calendar of activity breaks:
- Pushes activity alert at scheduled break time
- Allows "snooze" time of up to 15 minutes
- Lets employee add new activity breaks at any time
Employees compete in friendly challenges:
- Play the Hotseat game, an elimination game
- Choose from theme-based challenges like the “Return of Jane Fonda”
- Select the start date of their challenge and their opponents
- Include friends and family outside of work (Varies by employer)
- Use strategy and passed activities to eliminate their opponents
Track progress:
- View average activity minutes, game wins and other stats (employees)
Reviews
Create Account broken
Flufsan
Gives pin error upon first time creation. Needs bug fix or nobody will be able to even try out this app.
Employers ONLY
bbwitching
This app only works if your company enrolls and gives you a PIN. Don't waste your time downloading this if you are just average "I want to better myself".
Fun, beautiful and useful
rck_9
A well designed app. Easy to set up breaks. Challenges bring out competitiveness in my colleagues. Variety of breaks keeps it fresh. Look is beautiful and is intuitive to use. Those occasional cheeky messages make me laugh. I've used it for a couple months now and I'm hooked. Hotseat++.
Great simple app
KatkinF
The designers of this app have gone out of their way to make it simple, intuitive and fun. Tons of exercises to choose from, clear descriptions, simple icons and irreverent humor peppered throughout. You need your employer to sponsor the app in order to get a pin to access it. But with wellness being such a hot topic to drive down healthcare costs and increase productivity it should be a no brainer. Now I've gotta go do my desk pushups!
Motivation to get up and move
mialevesque
Unlike a simple timer to remind you to take a break from sitting, Hotseat gets you moving. Easy to setup, fun and motiving. The short, active breaks immediately give you a burst of energy. The many exercise choices provide variety and challenge. Highly recommend for anyone stuck sitting at a desk.
I love this app!
armg10
This app is a fun, easy, and effective way to get us all up and moving throughout the day. With all the reports about how bad sitting all day is for us, I couldn't wait to give this a try! There are many varied and fun activities within each category (cardio, strength, stretching), and they can really be a workout in 2 minutes! The activities are clearly described, you get lots of choices and options, and the app looks great. My only problem is that it works too well -- in that it reminds me how engrossed in my work, and thus lazy and sedentary, I can be during the day -- because I don't always feel like getting up and taking my breaks!
We got a party going on!
The Nostheides
Often criticized by coworkers for rarely leaving my desk, HotSeat has me skipping around the office and breaking up meetings to encourage a healthy 2 minutes of pretend hula hooping. Fun and effective.... Will be spreading the word! Sedentary stinks, HotSeat rocks.
Wee done!
Aaron1-9er
This simply fits into my daily life without me thinking about it. Even on my laziest days I found myself getting at least SOME activity!
