Wear This Device So the Boss Knows You’re Losing Weight

TheWindBringeth · Aug 23, 2014

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...e-so-the-boss-knows-you-re-losing-weight.html

The adoption of wearable devices by companies and insurers is increasing as spending on corporate wellness incentives has doubled to $594 per employee since 2009, according to a study by Fidelity Investments and National Business Group on Health. Technology is creating new forms of wellness programs to measure whether employees are making improvements, similar to a trend in the car-insurance industry where drivers who put a monitoring sensor on their vehicle can earn lower rates based on how well they are driving, instead of their driving history.
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Fitbit has a sales force dedicated to pitching employers and insurance companies, and touts software to make it easier to log the activity of workers, down to specific individuals if a company wants, said Amy McDonough, who coordinates deals for Fitbit with companies. Other makers of wearable devices, including Jawbone, Samsung Electronics Co. and iHealth Lab Inc., have also targeted businesses.
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Apple Inc. (AAPL), which has new health-tracking software called HealthKit that will be released this year and is said to be developing its own wearable device, has talked with UnitedHealth, the biggest U.S. insurer, and Humana, about its health initiatives, executives at the insurance providers said.
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Nebulus · Aug 23, 2014

When will people understand that monitoring/tracking/spying someone or something doesn't solve all the world's problems?

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