Originally Posted by
bcarter6
It will pay off for them if people actually do it. If they invest $.10 a mile in their employees and this influences their employees to ride more, think of how much savings will come in their health insurance premiums and claims when fewer of their employees are overweight with chronic sedentary diseases. Sounds like a smart program.
Those reductions in group health insurance and improvements in the overall employees' weight and chronic health sound more like the making of a nice Urban Legend. Any evidence of any employer, anywhere, ever getting a group health insurance break because of a company sponsored bicycling specific program? Or even any evidence that such a bicycling specific program has ever had any significant effect on improving the participating employees' weight or health?
I would assume that the healthy employees who currently bicycle will continue to do so and be happier with a few more coins in their pockets. Effect on the rest of the employees' health and weight would be minimal at best (especially for those employees with
chronic sedentary diseases.)