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Staying healthy is a really long term goal. You need to do it every day but there's no immediate penalty for not being healthy on a day to day basis. Penalizing
by nharada 10y ago
Staying healthy is a really long term goal. You need to do it every day but there's no immediate penalty for not being healthy on a day to day basis. Penalizing someone financially is much more real and tangible than "that pizza you ate today is contributing very slightly to your degrading health"
- analog31 10y agoThat sounds plausible, but on the other hand, it also sounds plausible that the immediate discomfort of dieting for most people would outweigh the immediate financial incentive. An additional plausible explanation, that always has to be considered until it's eliminated, is that wellness reward programs don't work at all, but tap into the psychology of the HR managers who buy that kind of stuff. I was only thinking in terms of a simplistic "homo economicus" model, in which a worker acts rationally in their own best interest. If we abandon that model, I'm not sure we have a useful alternative.