Personal Training Norwich -Do Fat People Cost Employers More?

Well as some of you might now I am a bit of a fitness geek. I was searching through the web for some obesity figures for an article I am writting . Whilst doing this I can across some Interesting Research carried out by Duke University.

Before I go on and answer the question do Fat People Cost Employers More. I will run through some figures.

The University had 12'000 Employees

For every 100 obese Employees 184 sick Days were taken

For Every 100 Normal Weight Employees 14 sick days were taken

WOW thats a big difference!!!

But it gets even scarier teh national average of obesity in the USA where the university is based is around 63% of the population. So if we that aerage is applied to the University staff it would work out that 7560 of the university staff are classed as obese.

So thats a staggering 13'910 sick days from obese employees how does that compare to the normal weight employees. well it was just 621 sick days taken for the normal weight employees.

THAT IS AN AMAZING DIFFERENCE

So if you now tried to calculate that into cost to give you an idea of how much this could be costing your company. If you don't own the company still worth looking at because if your company is losing money this way its money they can't pay you in extra salary.

So Really basic lets say An employee earns £50 a day or $100 thats 50 x 13910 = 698000 . well the maths for 100 is easy

So Obese Employees cost the company £698'000 in Sick Pay. Now that is nothing compared to the amount of money those employees could have produced for the company.

So if your a company owner think about keeping your employees healthy!!