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Article: Companies use incentives to get workers healthier.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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By Elizabeth Simpson
The Virginian-Pilot
Nudging employees to be healthy used to mean kicking in a gym discount or a free flu shot every year.
Now, though, companies are starting to push harder by linking their workers' health habits to their pocketbooks.
Some, for instance, will pay a larger share of their insurance premiums if workers agree to a free health assessment and keep their cholesterol in check, or a smaller share if they smoke or exceed their ideal body fat levels.
These can be called incentives to be healthy - or, for the glass-is-half-empty types, penalties for being unhealthy.
Such initiatives are on ...