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Obese employee are about 20% more likely to let slip productive time because of their health than their normal-weight or overweight counterparts, reports Caremark Rx Inc.

Obese workers require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone U.S. employers an estimated $42 billion annually in health-related absenteeism and "presenteeism," an exces of $117 billion by year compared with normal-weight workers, according to a Caremark research published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in December.

Two-thirds of obese workers' not to be found productive time (LPT) occurred while they were upon the job, demonstrating that reduc performance known as presenteeism has far more impact that absenteeism.

The inquiry also estimates that health-related LPT take away froms employers an average of $1627 through obese worker per year. These are the first national estimates that capture the require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone of work loss resulting from one as well as the other presenteeism and absenteeism.

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