Get paid to lose weight
Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently some bosses will gladly pay their overweight employees some money to lose weight. My boss will probably not be one of them.. correction : definitely not be one of them. Everyone knows money motivates people, and a new study confirms it yet again - this time as a tool to get people to lose weight. I suppose you could see the financial compensation as an investment of a company in their employees. Healthy, fit people will usually be more productive. Me personally, I do give myself some presents if I reach a certain weight loss target. It does work, I suggest you try it!
George.
“Lots of companies are experimenting with rewarding people for weight loss, and this study provides evidence that paying people to lose weight works,” says Eric Finkelstein, a health economist with RTI International, a non-profit research organization in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
He teamed with researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to recruit more than 200 overweight or obese employees in North Carolina. A third were given no financial reward for their weight loss after three months; a third were given $7 for every 1% drop in their body weight; a third were given $14 for every 1% decrease. The participants were not given a structured diet and fitness program.
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November 5th, 2007 at 3:00 am
Holy Snikes! Now we are PAYING people to take care of themselves!? Fat people make way too many excuses and the boss shouldn’t have to suffer an fatty! Overweight people typically just need to STOP putting food in their mouths. Simple as that. Fat people are usually very sensitive to the truth and complain that this attitude is “mean” or “uncaring.” God helps those that help themselves, so put down the chips and get healthy already.
Look, here’s the DIET SOLUTION; anyone that wants to lose the flubber should simply take a picture of themselves and put it on the fridge next to a picture of a starving child. Next time you need a cupcake, stare at the picture for 30 seconds and get real.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 am
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March 8th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Interesting post. “Get paid to lose weight”. That stopped me in my tracks.
I think that everybody trying to lose weight needs a little motivation sometimes & this might be exactly what they need. Lose weight + make money = high motivation & increase chance of success. (pretty cool)
Have a great day,
Kenney
http://www.natural-weight-loss-tip.com
June 29th, 2008 at 2:56 am
It definitely makes good economic sense to pay employees for losing weight. My own observation spanning a 30 year career in business is that fat employees are not the best workers especially in the areas of Sales & marketing.
An incentive to slim would make them more productive.