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Is Office Competition Boosting or Burning your Career

Is Office Competition Boosting or Burning your Career

Is Competition Among Co-Workers a Good Thing?

Think about the people in your office you admire most: They’re likely ambitious, hard-working, and passionate. When you watch someone like this thriving in his or her environment, he or she will naturally encourage you to do the same. Driven people who work together will feed one another’s success, and, in the best case scenario, each member can shine…

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Today is shaping up to be pretty awesome. Our office surprised us with a full catered lunch, and one of the firm principals stopped in to give us our corporate Christmas gift--FitBits! Perfect timing to start off a new healthy year. I work for a boutique bi-coastal PR firm located in Seattle and D.C. We'll be hosting competitions throughout the year to see  which office is more active. I am so excited.

About the FitBit One

The FitBit One is an activity and sleep tracker, kind of like a really fancy pedometer. The idea is that you wear it every day and it helps you optimize your activity levels. The best part about this tool is it's web application that helps you crunch all of your health statistics. This review from PCWorld sums it up nicely: "The Fitbit service calculates and displays your daily activity breakdown, showing how long you've been sedentary, lightly active, fairly active or very active. Checking your results and setting new goals quickly becomes an addiction, helped along by a simple and straightforward user interface."

I can't wait to get started :)

(photos courtesy of FitBit.com and VentureBeat)