Corporate America competes to improve employee health
Companies challenge each other with cash-driven workforce weight-loss competitions
The glut of U.S. workers contending with obesity and other chronic health troubles is costing companies more than $153 billion annually in lost productivity from absenteeism, alone—a situation exacerbated by even more staggering productivity loss from the four-times more detrimental “Presenteeism.”
In seeking an effective solution to the problem, Corporate America has turned to innovative, outside-the-box competition-driven weight loss programs to better motivate employee groups to battle the bulge, realize greater success with their diet and fitness endeavor, and win financial rewards in kind.