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They gave a few hundred people $42 a month, and deducted $1.40 for every day they didn't reach 7,000 steps. That's hardly threatening.

• Broken_Hippo 11y ago
  Sure, if you can afford the $42 per month. If you aren't making much, $9-11 per hour, that's a sizable chunk of money. More so if you have children. The company I worked for that did this "helped" us meet goals by offering discounts at a gym that not only wasn't available in the area, but still cost too much after discount for the low-level employees. This was the norm for most of such benefits. They first raised the standard price of insurance, then offered the "bonus" if we did the bloodwork and met the goals. Since people were used to getting such "benefits" from the company (It was obvious people were out of touch with the lives of their employees), the benefit didn't upset people as much as being fined for not going along with the company plans. Their "escape plan" for disabilities was that you'd not get charged if you had a form from your doctor saying the measurements were impossible for you to meet. Most people were very bitter at the fine and many did it simply because they couldn't afford the increase.
  • jonesb6 11y ago
    "281 employees at the University of Pennsylvania". If anything its a signal that the study itself is useless as it has an extremely small sample size with obvious biases.