Obesity costs employees up to 2,500 dollars a year in absenteeism and medical costs, according to a survey.
Obesity can lead to various kinds of ill health. In a study, the research organization RTI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have managed to put a cost on being overweight for those who are employed. For male employees the costs range from 460 to 2,030 dollars a year, for female employees the costs are between 1,370 and 2,485 dollars a year. For women, these costs are driven mainly by absenteeism. The higher a person's body mass index, the more their overweight costs them.
An employee of healthy weight misses about three days a year from work through illness or injury. For a women who is 100 pounds overweight, the number of days lost is eight. This is something that employers perhaps need to give more attention to. They could try looking for effective strategies for reducing weight among their workforce.
Using nationally representative datasets of 20,329 and 25,427 adults of full-time employed persons aged 1864, the authors estimated the annual excess cost of medical expenditures and absenteeism related to obesity. Excess annual medical costs for men range from $162 for those with BMI of 25.029.9 men to $1524 for those with BMI of 40.0. Excess annual absenteeism costs ranged from $6 to $440 for those groups. For women, annual medical costs range from $474 for those with BMI of 25.029.9 women to $1302 for those with BMI of 40.0. Excess annual absenteeism costs ranged from $94 to $812 for those groups. Based on the typical prevalance of overweight and obesity among employed people, these risk factors account for $277,000 in medical costs and absenteeism in a typical firm with 1000 employees.
Source
American Journal of Health Promotion September/October 2005
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