The YuLife app is central to YuLife’s successful employee benefits offering. It’s where employees can access their 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 provides 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 revolutionising employee engagement. People often don’t know about their benefits (despite your efforts), your intranet may be tricky to access or navigate, or people just don’t understand how and what their 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 simple challenge, getting in touch with a GP, or accessing mental health support. It is designed around proven behavioural 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 award-winning YuLife app – what it looks like, and how it works. 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 they can ‘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 Play, we start rewarding them for daily activity. The amount depends on their earn rate (which increases with the insurance covers the have) but even if you don’t log in, you’re accumulating YuCoin for your activity, and you can earn for:Every 2000 steps walkedEvery km cycledEvery 5 minutes spent on mindfulnessQuestsOn top of your ongoing activity of steps, kilometres 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 their engagement as they journey through four worlds: Forest, Ocean, Desert and Mountain. Upon completing each world, more daily quests unlock, until the YuLifer can do four quests a day, maximising 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. YuScreenThis tab in the app shows the user’s personal profile details: What level they’re on, ‘YuCoin Power’ (earning potential) and any Group Insurance protections they are covered for, such as Life Cover or Income Protection.Every product addition adds YuCoin earning power, and policy cover details are all easily and readily available here, where claims can also be started. 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 their colleagues 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: you can challenge a friend with a wager or YuCoin if you want to keep things interesting!RewardsThis is where your YuCoin translates into real-world rewards. They can be exchanged for vouchers and discounts from brands such as Dis-Chem, Checkers and Cape Union Mart – and there are lots more great brands on offer.For example, for 10,500 YuCoin you can get R250 worth of FootGear vouchers; for 2,100 you can get R50 worth of Checkers vouchers. The Wellbeing Hub Within the app’s menu system, users will find the Wellbeing Hub – a customisable ‘hub’ of wellbeing benefits. This is where employees can access Kena Health for immediate access to a Virtual GP by phone or video, the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with Lyra Wellbeing and more. From policy documents, pension details, 5-a-side football group details to mentor and mentee programmes – your business can add any internal benefit and initiative details to this area, so your people can find the information they need 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 few minutes), and they are super helpful too! 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 your people are earning, and where they’re spending their YuCoin. And as the YuLife app is fully customisable, with the ability to centralise core documents within the Wellbeing Hub, you can also manage documents and initiatives you’re running through the app from the HR Portal.Meet YuLifeYuLife is working to reimagine the insurance industry by protecting lives, rewarding living and inspiring life. We’re on a mission to transform traditional insurance into a life-enhancing experience every employee will value and use daily. How does it work? Our award-winning app uses behavioural science and game mechanics to reward your people for living well while offering protection in case of crisis. And with our top-rated employee assistance program, your team gets access to mental, financial and social support, virtual GPs, nutritionists, life coaches and more to help them live their best lives.Because we believe that your employees should benefit from their insurance from day one – and that wellbeing should be accessible every day, for everyone.Request a free demo for your team today.