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Press Coverage & Sound Bites

• Recess + Ruby = Best Place To Work

  As much as we'd love to take credit for how awesome Ruby Receptionists are, we think we'd be stretching it a bit. Truth be told they are just a great company. Still, even Oregon Business magazine says that their onsite Recess yoga classes have helped propel them to the top of the list of Best Companies to Work For in Oregon. We love Ruby!
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• McRibs or wellness?

  Tanya Barham joins Steve Boese, Fran Melmed and Greg Matthews on the HR Happy Hour. They discuss how organizations try and sustain the momentum around wellness after Open Enrollment, the role that incentives and rewards play, and why it seems that McRib season and Open Enrollment season overlap.
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• Wellness or Weld-ness?

  The Daily Journal of Commerce profiles an Oregon welding company that invests in the health of its employees. The DJC asks Recess CEO, Tanya Barham, what the benefits of offering wellness during a recession might be for employers.
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• Recess CEO in the Business Journal

  Our CEO gets a tiny taste of the star treatment after being featured in the Portland Business Journal Executive Profile. Lest it go to her head we've forbidden her from purchasing dogs that fit in purses or bleaching her hair.
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• Quacks and snake oil peddlers - debunking myths surrounding wellness

  This recorded 1 hour educational seminar is pertinent for HR and Benefits Professionals. It will discuss some of the considerations you should ponder in the implementation of a wellness program. You will walk away with a better understanding of the amount of time and effort and components necessary to support an effective wellness program in your organization. We will email the seminar login and password to you.
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• Let's Get Physical :: LiveWire! on OPB

  Recess Wellness Maven, Tanya Barham, shares her unique perspective on physical activity and gives a live audience of 500 radio listeners a one of a kind workout.
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• Easy, Low-Cost Wellness: Oregon Business Magazine

  Recess client, Bullivant Houser Bailey, enlisted Recess to create a fun, integrated and customized workplace wellness program.
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• No Place Like Work: Oregon Business Magazine

  Recess client, Rose City Mortgage, keeps their edge as one of the best employers to work for in Oregon in part by offering Recess on-site yoga classes to employees.
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• A Booty Kicking Workout!

  Author Ken DuBois talks to Tanya Barham about "boot camps," binge exercising, and how effective workouts sometimes defy expectations.
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• Wellness for Law Firms: Cure All or Snake Oil?

  An article featured in The Bridge (Association of Legal Administrators Bay Area publication) discussing corporate wellness, its promise and pitfalls for law firms. A great article for any company thinking about implementing a wellness program.
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• Helping Employees to Quit - a Good Idea?

  If what they are quitting is smoking, then YES! An article featured in the Business Journal on best practice workplace smoking cessation programs and their long-term benefits
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• The Fun Factor

  Recess' CEO, Tanya Barham, spoke at the IHRSA/American Journal of Health Promotion Annual Conference. Her session was titled, "The Fun Factor: Maximizing ROI by Making Effective, Science-Based Programs Fun." Have you ever heard 200 people at a conference having so much fun?
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We Love the Blogosphere!

• The Hi-tech Yogi

  Yoga at eROI is 3 years running and going strong. Recently, the employees at eROI put together a blog about the benefits of yoga from their perspectives complete with quotes, pictures, and ideas for ways to keep things fresh. Enjoy!
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• Smart Briefs on Workforce.com

  We're glad all of Tanya's wordy ramblings aren't just fizzling out into cyberspace like some dying star. Check out Workforce.com's smart briefs where our CEO's contributions on keeping executives out of the hospital, maternal health care in the US, and how the office makes us stupid all made the blog honor roll. Or you could just save yourself all that clicking and subscribe to our blog feed.
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• Benefits Buzz

  It's hard to be humble when you're bloggin' straight out of Portland, Oregon. Tanya Barham is a featured contributor at Benefits Buzz, a blog dedicated to presenting benefits news and opinion from the viewpoint of the practitioner. Benefits Buzz features posts from professionals working in corporate benefits and HR functions nationally. It is also a featured blog on Workforce.com
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• The Weighting Game

  Leslie Goldman asked readers of The Weighting Game blog to submit their questions about yoga for Tracy and Tanya of Recess to answer. People submitted nearly 30 questions! Check out the answers.
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• Is It Safe to Do Yoga at Work?

  The Safety Concepts bloggers asked Tanya about safety and liability issues when employees exercise or do yoga on-site. Bottom line: the benefits far outweigh the risks.
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• The Great Fitness Experiment

  Fitness and health blogger, Charlotte Hilton Andersen, discusses Good Touch/Bad Touch in the gym environment based on a series of yoga questions and answers that Recess did for the ivillage Weighting Game blog. Charlotte's post then inspired a blog at Glamour.com. Phew. We've been getting around!
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• Wearing heels. Have bike. Will travel.

  Okay so our CEO likes to bike - in heels. She was thrilled when we told her about a blog called Copenhagen Girls on Bikes, populated entirely with her people - high fashion, all-weather bicyclists. Check out her guest spot there.
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• Light as a feather stiff as a board?

  eROI's CEO, Ryan Buchanan, blogs about Recess yoga classes at his company and shares an hilarious self-deprecating photo with us. Thanks, Ryan.
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