The YuLife app is central to YuLife’s successful employee benefits offering. It’s where employees can access their insurance coverages, health and wellbeing benefits, and it’s how YuLife engages with employees on a daily basis. It’s also how YuLife offers data to HR teams that gives them unprecedented insight into their employees’ health and wellness. And in a world where only 20% of employees engage with health and wellbeing benefits (HR Magazine health and wellbeing report), YuLife is revolutionizing employee engagement. People often don’t know about their benefits (despite your best efforts), your intranet is difficult to access or navigate, or people don’t understand what the benefits offer them. But over 72% of employees download the YuLife app, and over 50% of employees are actively engaging with it.These are individuals who are signing into YuLife, taking a health challenge or accessing mental health support. It is designed around proven behavioral science, and gamification which makes the journey fun, engaging and more successful. But what does all of this mean on a practical level: what can you expect inside the app, and how is it delivering these industry-leading engagement levels? Here, we take a look inside the YuLife app – what it looks like, and how it works – to showcase the mechanics behind its award-winning daily engagement.YuCoin Within the YuLife app, the first tab you’ll find is ‘YuCoin’. YuCoin is the reward currency that employees earn by tracking their daily activity and participating in quests, challenges and competitions. They can see how many steps they’ve taken on this tab, how many YuCoin they’ve earned that day, or ‘Take a challenge’ to earn more. Once a new YuLifer has downloaded the YuLife app and accepted the prompt to sync with Apple Health or Google Fit, we start rewarding them for daily activity. The amount depends on their earn rate, but even if you don’t log in, you’re accumulating YuCoin for your activity, and you can earn:Every 2000 steps walkedEvery mile cycledEvery 5 minutes spent on mindfulnessAnd moreQuestsOn top of your ongoing activity of steps, miles cycled and mindful minutes, employees can earn even more YuCoin with daily quests. These small, repeatable challenges are designed to give the more engaged YuLifers more opportunities to earn.The hundreds of levels engage and inspire people, to maintain and reward engagement, as they journey through four worlds: the Forest, Ocean, Desert and Mountain. Upon completing each world, more daily quests unlock, until the YuLifer can do four quests a day, maximizing the amount of YuCoin they can earn. Complete a daily quest every day for 5 days, and you get rewarded in YuCoin for completing a streak. Chests along the way deliver a large bounty of YuCoin which can be unlocked every 7 quests. This ensures that those who progress through the quests receive the most YuCoin. Yu ScreenThis tab in the app shows the user’s personal profile details: What level they’re on, ‘YuCoin Power’ (earning potential) and any Group Insurance coverages, such as Life Insurance or Dental Insurance, as well as any elected voluntary insurance products. LeaderboardPart of the YuLife philosophy is to incorporate inclusive features which encourage all YuLifers to participate with the app – because games are better when we play together, whether it’s friendly competition or ramping up the efforts of your team to achieve a common goal.There is a leaderboard, where employees can compete with the top three people on the leaderboard, earning a place on the podium! It works on a 30-day rolling activity, updating every time a YuLifer opens the app from the last 30 days. As a result, the Leaderboard is constantly changing, and to maintain the top spot, a YuLifer is required to maintain or increase their activity every day, boosting engagement with the app, and your benefits. This is also where you can challenge fellow employees to duels: challenge a friend with a wager of YuCoin if you want to keep things interesting…RewardsThis is where your YuCoin translates into real-world rewards. They can be exchanged for gift cards and discounts from brands such as Amazon, Adidas and Sephora – and there are more options always being added. For example, for 14,480 YuCoin you can get a $20.00 Amazon gift card; for 9,840 YuCoin you can get a $15 Sephora gift card. The Wellbeing Hub Within the app’s menu system or on the Yu screen, users will find the Wellbeing Hub – a customizable ‘hub’ of wellbeing benefits. This is where employees can access their Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offerings, other health and wellbeing tools, and much more with speed and ease.ChatWithin the menu, you’ll also find a ‘Chat’ option. This is where you can speak to the YuLife customer support team through the App. This is a real-life, full-time team ready to answer any questions. And they’re famously fast (you’ll have a real person responding within a minute), and helpful! ReportingHR leaders will also be pleased to know that from the desktop Employer Portal you can easily report on download rates, usage, see how much their people are earning, and where they’re spending their YuCoin. And as the YuLife app is fully customizable, with the ability to centralize core documents and benefits within the Wellbeing Hub, you can also manage documents and initiatives you’re running through the app from the HR Portal.