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Poll Says Overweight Workers Miss Millions More Days of Work

Posted Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:12pm by Weight Loss Surgery

Their missed work results in about $153 billion in lost productivity annually, according to data collected this year by Washington-based Gallup.

Full-time U.S. workers who are overweight or obese and have other chronic health problems miss 450 million more work days annually than their normal-weight, healthy counterparts, according to a Gallup poll.

By Roberto Ceniceros October 19, 2011 Read the full Workforce.com Article

Roberto Ceniceros writes for Business Insurance, a sister publication of Workforce Management. To comment, email [email protected].

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