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The Fitness & Movement Professionals Survey is gathering data
about the ways in which fitness professionals impact public health,
and how their own health is impacted in the process.
The data gathered may change the way the world sees the work
of fitness instructors, personal trainers, coaches,
and movement professionals.
It's the first time that fitness and movement professionals will be identified as workers who contribute to their community’s physical and fiscal health.
Fitness professionals often fall into disparate economic and social buckets: Do they work in the leisure industry? Health and wellness purveyors? Coaches? Physical therapists? Beauty specialists? These questions matter when it comes time to ask for workplace protections and appropriate taxation. Much of society doesn't recognize fitness work as a "real job."
It doesn't matter if you teach 1 class or 40 classes. As long as you are paid to get people moving, then you have a role in our working environment. As a worker, especially a worker who helps others, your health, your workplace situation, and your prosperity matter!
Workplace precarity measures how sustainable, efficient, and effective a job is. It measures how much access workers have to employment rights. For over a year, I have been developing this survey under the guidance of SHARP. SHARP is the research arm of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. They've successfully analyzed other workers in precarious environments in the USA and with global partners. The survey that you're about to take is based upon, and will be measured against, those “control” surveys. It's objective, unbiased, and truly scientific. Please see the precarity surveys below as a reference. SHARP and I hope to publish a similar peer-reviewed investigation with the results of this fitness professionals precarity data.
This survey is not related to any Union, political party, or organization. It's been created jointly by me and SHARP. I plan to use the results with Group Fitness Instructors United, where we will advocate for industry change. But, appropriate change depends on what the data says… What YOU tell us!
We need you to contribute! Please take this survey! The survey should take 15-45 minutes of your time. You can exit and return at any time (you don't have to complete it all at once).
After completing the survey, please send it to other fitness and movement professionals! Our goal is 1,000 responses from the USA and more from abroad.
Fitness professionals often fall into disparate economic and social buckets: Do they work in the leisure industry? Health and wellness purveyors? Coaches? Physical therapists? Beauty specialists? These questions matter when it comes time to ask for workplace protections and appropriate taxation. Much of society doesn't recognize fitness work as a "real job."
It doesn't matter if you teach 1 class or 40 classes. As long as you are paid to get people moving, then you have a role in our working environment. As a worker, especially a worker who helps others, your health, your workplace situation, and your prosperity matter!
Workplace precarity measures how sustainable, efficient, and effective a job is. It measures how much access workers have to employment rights. For over a year, I have been developing this survey under the guidance of SHARP. SHARP is the research arm of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. They've successfully analyzed other workers in precarious environments in the USA and with global partners. The survey that you're about to take is based upon, and will be measured against, those “control” surveys. It's objective, unbiased, and truly scientific. Please see the precarity surveys below as a reference. SHARP and I hope to publish a similar peer-reviewed investigation with the results of this fitness professionals precarity data.
This survey is not related to any Union, political party, or organization. It's been created jointly by me and SHARP. I plan to use the results with Group Fitness Instructors United, where we will advocate for industry change. But, appropriate change depends on what the data says… What YOU tell us!
We need you to contribute! Please take this survey! The survey should take 15-45 minutes of your time. You can exit and return at any time (you don't have to complete it all at once).
After completing the survey, please send it to other fitness and movement professionals! Our goal is 1,000 responses from the USA and more from abroad.
