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It seems he is making a positive move on the weight/fitness issue by providing vouchers and having open communication and education about health and fitness. He offers possible cash bonuses for those that strive to be healthier and provided health coaches. Good for him! These are incentives to live better and positive reinforcement regarding health issues. I'd like to see more employers do that. The smoking issue though I disagree with. With that he offers only punitive measures, ie: firing smoking employees. Instead he could offer similar incentives to get people to drop the smoking habit. He could bring in speakers from the American Heart Association, he could offer assistance with paying for quit smoking programs or cash bonuses for those that reach thirty, sixty, and ninety days smoke free. This would be positive reinforcement and support in promoting a healthier lifestyle. Instead he issues an ultimatum, quit or be sacked. People don't like ultimatums and they don't like people mucking about in their private lives. Not smoking at work, I can see. His place, his rules. Not smoking in ones private home (I'm not a smoker), none of his business. Health care costs going up? Tough. Cost of doing busines. Maybe I don't want to pay taxes to cover health care for the elderly. Maybe health care costs are going up because people are living longer and we have a ton of elderly to care for. Hmm... I guess its a financial issue so by that rational everyone over the age of sixty is euthanized. It just makes fiscal sense. Corporations already have too much control over our lives. Those that scream that the government needs to stay out our lives too often seem perfectly happy to let a corporation run rough-shod over them in the name of almighty capitlism. As long as I do my job well and there is a need for my position in the company it shouldn't matter what I do with my personal time be it smoking, fire eating, or snow skiing.
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