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Walking On Earth

Holistic health platform

21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Lifestyle
  • Personal health
  • Fitness
  • Mental health
  • Wellbeing
London, GB

Company mission

To solve the global stress epidemic and inspire a more preventative model of health, starting with the workplace

Insights

Female leader
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

71% female employees

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

The modern workplace throws unprecedented stress at employees, impacting both individual well-being and business performance. Walking on Earth tackles this challenge head-on with its precision health platform designed specifically for workplace stress.

Its data-driven approach starts with the WONE index, creating individualised health plans for each employee. With access to hundreds of live and on-demand resources on neuroscience, nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and sleep, allowing employees to proactively manage their stress.

Walking on Earth boasts impressive results, including a 3x revenue increase and a proven track record of success with large, high-performing companies. It achieves an average 50% company engagement rate and a 70% increase in employee WONE index scores, averaging 30 percentage points, translating to healthier, happier, and more productive teams.

Leading by example, its experienced leadership team comes from top companies like Google and Deliveroo, and it has VC backing from a number of renovned investors. With a culture centered around well-being, it embodies the change they advoctate for.

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Unlimited holistic health days
  • 4 quarterly reset days
  • Pension scheme
  • Hybrid working - 2 days in office, 3 days WFH
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Monthly private 1-1s with WONE experts
  • Company retreat
  • Christmas closure
  • 4 month per year work from anywhere allowance

Company values

  • At the centre of what makes our culture unique is authenticity. The word authenticity correlates to the Sanskrit word satya, which means that which is true, has value, endures and illuminates
  • We are Authentic: Carl Jung: "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
  • We are Mindful: Thich Nhat Hanh: “The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
  • We think Upstream: Nei Jing: “Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the ultimate principle of wisdom. To cure disease after it has appeared is like digging a well when one feels thirsty or forging weapons after the war has already begun.”
  • We Subtract: Lao Tzu: “To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."
  • We are Interdependent: African Proverb: Ubuntu: I am because you are

Funding (1 round)

Jul 2021

$3.8m

SEED

$3.8m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Former VP Strategy at BenevolentAI and founder of non-profit Vahani.

Diversity & Inclusion at Walking On Earth

Isabelle Pitman (Head of Operations & People)

  • Our mission is to solve the global stress epidemic and to elevate human happiness. We know that being a diverse organisation is fundamental to us building a product that caters for all. We believe that diversity fuels creativity; enabling us to generate ideas and solutions to complex problems, in an ever-evolving and increasingly diverse world. We’re committed to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive, structured and as objective as possible. We strive to make fair, robust and evidence-based hiring decisions
  • Creating healthy work environments, where people feel engaged and can thrive, is at the heart of what we do. Engagement is key to driving impact. To be engaged, you must feel included and valued. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture through encouraging expression, connection and a sense of belonging. Being a data driven business, we’re constantly evaluating our NPS score to identify where we can be doing more for our people. We offer unlimited holistic health days, meaning if you need a day away from work to priortise your health and wellbeing, you’re empowered to make that decision
  • At Walking on Earth, we know that in order to build an organisation that celebrates diversity, we must have policies that are inclusive. We also know that when it comes to flexibility, the true meaning of the word lies in building a culture that does not discriminate if someone is a single parent, a primary carer or suffers from a chronic illness. With these principles in mind, we offer flexible working arrangements to suit individual needs. Our HQ is in London and we have an office that is available 5 days a week, with the whole team meeting weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays to connect in person. We always take into consideration the individual and do have some members of the team working fully remote in locations including Kenya and Belgium
  • We’re conscious that our environment can have a huge impact on us and we’re always encouraging our people to take time out in nature. To help enable this, we offer the opportunity to work fully remote for 4 months of the year
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