Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business

Why Some Employers are Paying Employees to Lose Weight | Fox Business: The obesity epidemic plaguing the country not only adds billions of dollars in costs to the nation’s health-care system, it also weighs on employees’ productivity. According to HealthyWage, workers dealing with obesity and other chronic health issues cost more than $153 billion a year in lost productivity due to absenteeism.