How Workday Scaled Preventative Health Across Europe – With 43% Repeat Engagement

As Workday expanded its wellbeing strategy across Europe, the organisation faced a challenge familiar to many international employers: how do you deliver consistent preventative health support across a distributed, hybrid workforce when healthcare access, engagement levels and local infrastructure vary significantly between countries?

Rather than relying solely on traditional wellbeing initiatives or perception-based surveys, Workday wanted to make preventative health more visible, accessible and actionable for employees across the EMEA region.

By deploying SISU Health Stations across offices and events throughout Europe, Workday created a scalable preventative health programme that combined accessible employee health checks with objective workforce insight and repeat engagement over time.

Between September 2025 and April 2026, the programme delivered:

• 736 health checks across 9 European locations
• 43.2% repeat participation
• 114 GP call-to-actions
• 35% reduction in high blood pressure prevalence among repeat users

The challenge – Delivering consistent preventative health across a fragmented European workforce

Workday already had a mature wellbeing strategy in place, supported by multiple initiatives across the organisation. However, ensuring employees could easily access preventative health checks across every region remained a challenge.

Availability varied significantly between countries, and in some locations employees had limited practical access to preventative screening altogether. At the same time, hybrid working made traditional workplace health initiatives harder to coordinate and easier for employees to overlook.

The primary challenge was that we wanted to organise health checks in every country and that offering didn’t exist in some countries or the solution was not convenient for our employees.

 

Lisa Aslam, Principal Benefits Manager

The organisation wanted a solution that removed friction from participation, worked flexibly across multiple countries, and encouraged employees to engage proactively with their health rather than reactively when problems emerged.

Having previously used SISU Health Stations through earlier wellbeing partnerships with BUPA and Vhi, Workday already knew the model could drive strong employee engagement.

The solution – Making preventative health visible and accessible for hybrid workers

SISU Health Stations were deployed across multiple Workday offices throughout Europe, helping bring preventative health checks directly into employees’ day-to-day working environments.

Rather than requiring appointments, external clinics or lengthy assessments, employees could complete a confidential health check independently in just a few minutes.

This simplicity proved especially valuable within a hybrid working culture where engagement and communication are increasingly difficult to sustain.

Having something accessible in the office that takes 5 minutes is very helpful.

To maximise visibility, stations were positioned in high-footfall communal areas across offices, with screens facing the walls or windows so employees felt comfortable using them privately.

The ease of use also helped lower participation barriers across different employee groups and locations.

The machine is incredibly easy to use.

Alongside core health metrics such as blood pressure and body composition, Workday also used configurable questionnaires to gather broader wellbeing insight and understand areas such as stress across its workforce.

We like the fact that we can adapt the questionnaires, so we get an understanding of the stress test, for example.

The flexibility of the deployment model also enabled Workday to bring Health Stations into large-scale employee events and high-attendance moments, including Workday Rising.

The results – High repeat engagement and earlier identification of hidden health risks

Repeat engagement increased year-on-year

Between September 2025 and April 2026, Workday completed 736 health checks across 9 European locations, with repeat participation increasing from 36.5% to 43.2%.

This repeat engagement was particularly important because it allowed employees to recheck progress over time while giving Workday a clearer understanding of longer-term workforce health trends.

In some locations, engagement levels significantly exceeded expectations.

There are some places where we’ve put the machine and people have asked me if we could have it there permanently.

The programme also reinforced the importance of aligning wellbeing activity with key in-person moments within hybrid organisations.

Those key in-person moments when everyone’s together is a great opportunity to get the stations involved during those events.

Identifying hidden health risk earlier

The programme helped uncover important health risks that may otherwise have remained unnoticed, particularly around cardiovascular health.

SISU Health data revealed that:

• 68.5% of participants had not checked their blood pressure within the previous 12 months
• 9.7% recorded high blood pressure
• 56.2% were overweight or obese
• 114 GP call-to-actions were triggered

For Workday, the ability to encourage earlier intervention and direct employees towards appropriate medical support became one of the programme’s most valuable outcomes.

The biggest value add from the SISU machine is actually the fact that it signposts people to the doctor if there’s that health warning. It’s raising the awareness and encouraging people to start taking a step in the right direction to manage their health.

Tracking positive movement over time

Repeat participation also enabled Workday to measure changes across several health indicators over time.

Among repeat users, SISU Health outcome analysis observed:

• 35% reduction in high blood pressure prevalence
• 17.6% reduction in smoking prevalence
• 2.5% reduction in body fat percentage

While Workday noted these outcomes sit alongside a broader wellbeing strategy, repeat measurement created additional opportunities for employees to stay engaged with their health and monitor progress over time.

Strategic value – Moving beyond perception-based wellbeing data

Alongside supporting employees individually, the programme also gave Workday access to anonymised population-level health insight that could be combined with other organisational wellbeing and medical datasets.

This helped the organisation move beyond purely perception-based wellbeing measures and build a more evidence-led understanding of workforce health priorities.

SISU Health’s data set contributes insights combined with other data sets that we receive, for example, from the medical provider, as well as looking at absence levels.

The insights generated through the programme helped support broader conversations around cardiovascular health, obesity, smoking and preventative intervention across the organisation.

The visibility of the Health Stations also reinforced Workday’s wider commitment to employee wellbeing in a tangible and highly visible way.

Delivering a preventative health programme across multiple countries

Rolling out preventative health support across multiple countries introduced logistical and operational challenges, particularly within hybrid working environments where office attendance, building access and local infrastructure varied significantly between locations.

Despite this complexity, Workday highlighted SISU Health’s flexibility and commitment in helping ensure the programme was delivered successfully across Europe.

SISU Health’s been very flexible and accommodating, adapting to our needs… We appreciate the tenacity to see that through and deliver on the commitment. A tried and tested partner.

By combining accessible preventative health checks with repeat engagement, actionable workforce insight and flexible international deployment, Workday has successfully embedded preventative health into its broader wellbeing strategy across Europe.

Scale preventative health across your workforce

Supporting employee health across hybrid teams, multiple offices and different regions requires wellbeing approaches that are accessible, consistent and easy for employees to engage with.

SISU Health helps organisations deliver scalable preventative health programmes through accessible health checks, workforce insight and flexible deployment models designed for modern workplaces.

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