Re:Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with...
by analog31 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @01:59PM
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That 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.
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.