Obesity Costs Companies Billions

If you are a CEO, CFO, or Benefits Manager for your company, you are seeing annual increases in your employee life, disability and health insurance premiums that are a direct result of the mounting statistics of overweight and obese employees.

Some facts:

  • The annual cost to US Employers attributable to obesity is $13 billion.
  • In 1980, 15% of adults were obese; in 2000, 32% were overweight and the number is growing
  • Today, fully 66% of adults in the US are overweight
  • Employees with weight problems incur 36% higher health care costs than their normal weight counterparts
  • Business Insurance states that obesity associated illness costs 39 million lost workdays per year in the US
  • UnumProvident Corp, a leading disability insurer reports a 10 fold increase in incidence of disability claims attributable to obesity, showing an average annual cost of $51,023 per claimant

If you are a CEO, CFO, or Benefits Manager for your company, you are seeing annual increases in your employee life, disability and health insurance premiums that are a direct result of the mounting statistics of overweight and obese employees.

If you are a CEO, CFO, or Benefits Manager for your company, you are seeing annual increases in your employee life, disability and health insurance premiums that are a direct result of the mounting statistics of overweight and obese employees.

Wellness and You has the resources to bring about positive change for your workforce and your bottom line. Addressing these needs now rather than later will result in immediate benefit to you and your employees. What does your workplace environment look like?  Your staff break room? Your employee dining options?

How much or how little awareness does your company place on health and wellness? We can no longer afford to ignore the damage that results from poor eating habits, nor can we ignore the mounting financial burden to our companies and our employees.. It's time to overcome ignorance about healthy eating.  

For more information, contact Peg Doyle at Wellness and You today.