Question

What are the employment and income-related effects of being overweight for women? For men?

Answer 1

The employment and income related effects of being overweight for women and men are as follows :

a. Overweight people face significant challenges while they seek employment as most of the employers prefer candidates who are healthy and fit, even though employers state they are equal employment opportunity organization still diversify between the employees who are overweight due to either personal bias or long term contribution issue of such employee.

b. Organization seeks employees who are energetic, healthy and fits the organizational culture, as obese people due to health complications has threat of short lifespan, which can be a loss for organization if they hire overweight employees. Apart from that some insurance plans are not provided to employees who are over 175Ibs, where employer have to find the healthcare plans outside of their current plans, which can cost around $4,879 for overweight women and $2,646 for overweight men annually.

c. As for the loss of life employer has to pay even more amount that is $8,365 for women and $6,518 for men who are overweight. As the lifestyle of such people can be problematic for employers in long term due to appearance which does not fit organizational culture while representing organization outside etc.

d. Like for example when two candidate apply for similar position, one being of average weight and one overweight even though both are highly qualified, experienced etc but the organization will tend to hire candidate who is of average weight as that candidate will fit the business culture.