Better get it done or Honeyhell be in your records to see if your a smoker or see how your health is if bad $1500 Honeyhell will take from you.
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Fatty Tax coming up .
@UZcas8N-meqm - Hon is the next GE. Running out of rabbits. Trump keeping markets and HON stocks propped up. I used to work at GE and remember when they were number 1 market cap. Can't keep cutting to grow.
BMI is only about HON trying to save $$.
I don’t mind the company caring. Unfortunately that’s not what they’re doing. We employees have basically become the cash cow for Honeywell. Cut benefits, make us pay more, unlimited vacation so they don’t have to accrue the funds legally, 401k payout delay so that they can ditch people before the end of the year and keep the cash, layoff people as “productivity.”
Essentially them screwing us allows the company to make its numbers.
Wha happens when they’ve cut too deep? Hint: they already have. Ramp up the M&A machine to assimilate more people to screw.
How did that work for GE???
I don't agree with the process, However if you fall out of the BMI limits the company set you are a fatty and need to loose weight.
honeywell doesn't care about your health. they care about how fast you move. smokers take breaks. overweight people are slow ( stereotype). EEI is everything. They care only about BILLING DEFENSE CUSTOMERS FOR ENGINEERING HOURS that THEY DO NOT PAY WORKERS FOR. Simple as that.
Back to your RevCOG work. It is Sunday and milestones are coming.
I recently left HON (yea!) for a federal job. Smokers pay $100/mo but you self identify and are not tested. I personally did not mind the annual monitoring as it kept me aware and more focused on not having to worry about BMI. They should offer additional financial benefits for the healthy IMO and increased cost for the overweight and smokers.
If you’re a woman with thyroid disease— underactive—ask your doctor to get you an exemption. I work at least five hours mandatory overtime, no more WFH so my workout time is down to nothing given the commute. I also only get 3 hours sleep a night thanks to India telecons telecons at 10 pm and 5 am the next morning leave no life.
Also menopause is extremely difficult for weight loss. Plus i had surgery for fibroids so 6 weeks rest prescribed.
Tho overweight my entire life, my resting heart rate is 51, bp and other labs normal, and I just had a cardiac workup at Boston Labs showing cardiovascular perfection.
Honeywell has taken more $$ from me in 35 years than they ever paid out.
Bottom line: dropping Honeywell insurance, going on hubby’s instead which is cheaper anyways and surprise surprise rewards employees for doing things like getting checkups. PSA for the men, mammograms for women etc. looking forward to that first $50 Amazon gift card for just getting my Pap.
Yea, because muscle weighs more than fat, in some cases, you can have a BMI that just falls outside of the good range. My doctor says given my body type, muscles, etc. to not worry about BMI ( I have great blood pressure & cholesterol numbers and am in good shape).
Have friends who work for other companies who have established these same health promotion efforts, so Honeywell is not alone in this.
I am not a smoker, but spouse and I both could stand to lose at least 30 pounds each. Knowing this was coming it spurred us to get a bit more serious in February about diet and exercise and we've both lost the weight, feel better, etc. I may get dinged for my BMI when I am tested in a couple weeks because I think it will be borderline. But am still slowly dropping weight since we are eating better and moving more so am happy about that.
Take the opportunity to take charge of your health! No one wants, down the road, to be an unhealthy senior citizen if they can help it!
Makes me wonder if our government employees are subject to these same requirements
For those who are smokers and grossly overweight are taking much more from Honeywell and those healthy who don't use insurance yet pay more in premiums than the penailties. Yes these are facts. Same reason teenagers pay more for car insurance, males/sky divers/obese/smokers pay more for life insurance, and flordia residents pay more for home insurance.
But responses will reference the cost from 30 years ago, call out the trolls, and not accept reality and facts. So yes, stop smoking/lose weight or pay more. The rest do anyways. Be grateful you have insurance because those who don't really pay.
It’s a good thing they don’t have grammar tests.