Cigna has become a world leader in research and data sharing when it comes to healthcare. But this often takes months to years to bear fruit, which was not helpful in an everchanging landscape of Covid-19. So Cigna briefed us to come up with a way to produce important data that could be accessed and shared quicky to help companies around the world understand the stress their employees were going through during this difficult time. .
With the public unavailable to study in person, we came up with an idea of how to gather real-time data on stress during a pandemic, using the people we trusted the most...our own employees. So, we launched the trailblazing ‘Cigna Remote Well-being Study’ that uses digital wearable devices from imec, a leading non-profit R&D and innovation hub, to get a first look at the physical and mental effects of pandemic stress on Cigna’s own employees. All gathered in real-time, the study not only promoted the importance of wellbeing within Cigna but created up-to-date data news for partners around the world so they could act on employee stress and learn how it was changing over different time periods.