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Employee wellbeing

Our best ambassadors for healthy lifestyles are our employees. To encourage active lifestyles and healthy diets we provide our employees with facilities to exercise and eat healthily at work.

Empowering our employees

PepsiCo's 'Fit For Life' programme aims to ensure our employees can lead healthy lifestyles at work. The programme allows all our employees to access and share information on work-life balance including sleep, nutrition and general physical wellbeing. We are constantly evolving the programme and are currently working on the next phase of 'Fit For Life', which will go deeper into work-life balance issues, including examining how to deal with stress and promoting mental wellbeing. We hope to publish details of the programme by early 2010.

The 'Fit For Life' programme is supplemented through basic nutrition training available online and provided to all employees to encourage healthier diets. We are also preparing a one-day workshop for all front-line employees looking at 'how to live a healthier life', which will be rolled out by 2010.

We have put in place supporting initiatives, such as our 'One Simple Thing' initiative introduced in 2007, to enable better work-life balance. Employees can agree with their manager to make one change to positively affect their home-life balance. All these initiatives are part of the wider culture encouraged at PepsiCo, encouraging employees to manage their life balance better.

Enabling healthy lifestyles at work

We aim to provide healthy food in the workplace, and all employees at our UK Head Office in Theale have access to our on-site restaurant which offers a 'Fit For Life' healthy option every day. We've also refurbished the restaurants at our sites. Through the "Fit For Life" program we offer our Head Office employees the opportunity to have Healthy Heart checks followed by a 15 minute health check-up carried out by Heart Research UK.

Our Theale and Beaumont Park offices are also equipped with an on-site gym, to which all employees have access and the opportunity to attend fitness classes.