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Health insurance incentive apps like Virgin Pulse are an utter waste of time

Anyone else subjected to wasting time each day filling out health metrics on this or a similar app? My company previously reduced monthly insurance costs for the year if you produced a copy of your health screening results (blood test, general physical) but apparently that was too useful and convenient. For the last few years, we’ve had to carrot and stick our way through this pointless Pulse app in order to accrue points for an overall cost reduction on health insurance for the following year. “Did you drink water today?” “Did you eat a healthy breakfast?” “True or false: sleeping 8 hours a day makes you feel better.” “Join a team and dance your way across the globe with steps!” Give me a break. Stop stealing even more of my time and what little motivation I have left for my job at this point.


Anyone else subjected to wasting time each day filling out health metrics on this or a similar app? My company previously reduced monthly insurance costs for the year if you produced a copy of your health screening results (blood test, general physical) but apparently that was too useful and convenient.

For the last few years, we’ve had to carrot and stick our way through this pointless Pulse app in order to accrue points for an overall cost reduction on health insurance for the following year. “Did you drink water today?” “Did you eat a healthy breakfast?” “True or false: sleeping 8 hours a day makes you feel better.” “Join a team and dance your way across the globe with steps!”

Give me a break. Stop stealing even more of my time and what little motivation I have left for my job at this point.

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