The Great British Switch Off: Over a Million People Go Screen-free for techtimeout tuesday

I can't believe I'm actually writing this. At this point we have 1,296,412 people pledged for techtimeout tuesday on 28th November 2023.

Nearly 1.3 million people.

That is about 4% of the UK working population.

What is this techtimeout tuesday thing?

techtimeout tuesday is the UK’s biggest workplace digital wellbeing day when hundreds of businesses take part in some offline fun to raise awareness of the importance of digital wellbeing.

On Tuesday 28th November:

• pick a techtimeout activity and a period of time (10 minute, an hour or longer! Up to you!)
• enjoy the social and health benefits of spending a bit of time offline.
• Raise awareness and start the conversation of digital wellbeing

It's completely free to join and we have lots of resources available to help your business to get the most out of the day.

How do I take part?

Head to our website and sign up: https://www.techtimeout.co.uk/techtimeout-tuesday/

A few final details for you:

• Share the pledge form: Keep it really simple by asking colleagues to take the techtimeout pledge!
• Engaging Activities: Struggling for ideas or running out of time? Here are 10 techtimeout activities that you can ask your colleagues to look through and pledge to do one of them on techtimeout tuesday at some point during the day. You can then invite them to share their experiences on our communication channels—be it the Intranet or Slack.
• Digital Wellbeing Packs: Want to make it extra special? We have a very limited amount of digital wellbeing packs available. You can still ensure your teams receive these thoughtful gifts in time for TechTimeout Tuesday. (Last postage date is Saturday to get to you in time!)
• Digital Wellbeing Resources Pack: Dive into our free updated resources pack which includes; comms you can use internally and externally, social media templates and ideas on how to run the campaign. (I’ve also pasted the social media graphic below with a suggest caption!)

For marketing/press teams:

• Here is a draft blog post if you want to share your participation.
• Here are some Social Media Templates for you to use.
• If you’re interested in being included in our press pack please send us; your company logo, your company name and a description of what your team are doing. (Optionally you can include a quote that we will share with our media partners)

If you are taking part, thank you for supporting the cause and I hope you enjoy techtimeout tuesday. If you need anything further, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

www.techtimeout.co.uk

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