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> When companies like Google see their healthcare costs drop by $12,000 per employee annually and productivity increase by 25%, we observe a restructuring of co
by aljgz 2y ago
> When companies like Google see their healthcare costs drop by $12,000 per employee annually and productivity increase by 25%, we observe a restructuring of corporate America that makes remote work a minor adjustment.
In my entire office, there's one overweight person that I know. Out of thousands of employees. There could be more, and other cities might be different, but you get the idea.
The author intentionally or mistakenly applies some numbers to whole populations.
Keep chaining impacts while eliminating small coefficients, your end result will be off by more than a few orders of magnitude.
EDIT: I need to be more clear about my point: My BigTech office does not represent my country stats: Canada has a 26% obesity and 36% overweight adult population. Just taking those numbers, applying them to all populations is wrong.
The analysis is wrong in other subtle but important ways as well. A 25% increase in performance of an allegedly low performing group of a company would not increase the overall company's efficency as much.
- Marsymars 2y ago> In my entire office, there's one overweight person that I know. Out of thousands of employees. That seems incompatible with the numbers that show something like 3/4 of the US population being overweight. (And yeah, BMI isn't great, but it works pretty well with an aggregate population of sedentary individuals, which the population at large is.)
- thundergolfer 2y agoThe population of a specific Google office could be two std deviations from the mean. My office area, SoHo NYC, has a dramatically lower obesity rate than the USA average. Maybe 10-20% of the population is overweight, let alone obese, and it’s mostly the service workers.
- brokensegue 2y ago40% of Americans are obese and way more are merely overweight. Either your office is small, a huge fluke, weirdly selected or you're not observant enough.
- Denvercoder9 2y agoOr not in the US.
- xboxnolifes 2y ago6th option: They are overweight, but do not know, so they don't recognize what overweight looks like. But also, it's pretty easy to not look overweight if you're not obese. 30 pounds can be as little as a few waist sizes. I can gain and lose 15 pounds without looking like I changed at all.
- brokensegue 2y agoThat counts as not observant to me
- anal_reactor 2y agoWhen you're like 5kg overweight it can definitely hide well, especially if your body shape is proportional.
- Workaccount2 2y agoI am 6ft and 165lbs and work with a bunch of overweight people. They are normal weight and I desperately need to eat something - according to them.
- xboxnolifes 2y agoI was going to add this exact comment to me post originally. You're me, but with my family.
- armada651 2y agoSame weight, but I'm 6ft6. At that point even my doctor would repeatedly tell me to eat more.
- thfuran 2y ago>The author intentionally or mistakenly applies some numbers to whole populations. You're doing it far worse than they are. The obesity rate in the US is something like 30%, with some regional variation.