Britain's obesity crisis is keeping more than 600,000 people out of employment, it has been revealed.

Research from the University of York, which examined data from the UK Biobank, found that being obese reduces an individual's likelihood of holding a job by 4.2 percentage points. 

This equates to approximately four out of every 100 obese adults being unemployed purely as a consequence of their weight, highlighting the significant economic toll of the nation's problem.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/obesity-crisis-britons-too-fat-to-work

54 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

https://www.gbnews.com/news/obesity-crisis-britons-too-fat-to-work

Britain's obesity crisis is keeping more than 600,000 people out of employment, it has been revealed.

Research from the University of York, which examined data from the UK Biobank, found that being obese reduces an individual's likelihood of holding a job by 4.2 percentage points. 

This equates to approximately four out of every 100 obese adults being unemployed purely as a consequence of their weight, highlighting the significant economic toll of the nation's problem.

A perfect example of abusing data to make a point the data does not demonstrate.

Probably explains why so many Brits move to Thailand… cheaper food, warmer weather, and walking to the bar counts as exercise. 😜

americans must be far worse on their junk food diet

Read the article and it makes an assumption about fat people not getting jobs. No one interviewed the owners or managers who hire people and asked if they discriminated against fat white people.

Correlations aren't already certain. Some examples.

The number of Nicolas Cage movies released in a year seems to align with the number of swimming pool drownings. What has he done to cause drownings?

As iPhone sales have climbed, so have incidents of people falling down stairs. Weren't they looking where they were going?

Being unable/unwilling to work is one aspect of obesity in regard to employment. However the elephant in the room is how obese people make themselves less employable simply by being obese.

As an employer, I've experienced the effects of employing obese workers. Many (most?) employers would agree with me. Faced with employing an obese person with the same skills/qualities/qualifications as a non-obese person, the skinnier one wins.

Reasons are varied. Obese people almost always have other morbidities that cause them to take more sick days than others, have more medical appointments etc . and ultimately cost you money. They are also more likely to cause friction with co-workers for a multitude of reasons - from the temperature set on the office A/C to the inability to lift something, climb a ladder, or even fit into a company uniform. I had one bloke that managed to collapse three office chairs over a six-month period.

Call me a bigot, but these are the employment truths - albeit anecdotally over a 40-year period. After having employed hundreds of people I have taken the chance on a number of obese employees, and been let down in every case. There was a time when you could take them out in the yard and suggest that if they wanted to apply for another job that you'd give them a glowing reference - can't do that these days.