Corporate America is handing out huge cash bonuses this year to workers who hit the gym and knock off pounds.
Call it their pound of flesh. Skyrocketing health-care costs are forcing more American employers to reward workers for good health, which often translates into fewer doctor visits and lower health-care insurance premiums.
And this “carrot and stick,” popularly known as preventative care, may be one of the hottest health-care workplace trends in 2018, according to analysts.
This battle of the bulge can be waged profitably. Just ask Laura Mahony, whose employer’s monthly $200 cash bonus — a generous $2,400 annually for keeping fit — allows her to avail herself of a variety of healthy activities in high-cost New York City.
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2 comments:
Great !
Pay people to be healthy ?
That's an incentive !
Why not fire them and hire healthy people if you can find them.
This can be problematic - who is monitoring this?
I don't think my cholestrol levels are the companies business
Neither is my weight
Next they will be forcing you to get flu shots, pnemonia shots, shingles shots.
Sure - you want to pay for my gym membership, I am ok with that - past that it's a big no.
Friend works for a hospital in PA. They get incentives to take all sorts of drugs and shots. No, no no.
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