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WSJ Your Money Briefing

How Weight Bias Can Hurt a Career

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Studies show that heavier people are paid and promoted less than their thinner colleagues. Wall Street Journal reporter Ray A. Smith joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the financial impact that can have on overweight workers, and what companies and lawmakers are doing to address weight bias at work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

you.

0:07.5

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0:11.4

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0:17.3

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0:27.5

Here's your money briefing from Monday, July 31, I'm JR Whalen for the Wall Street Journal.

0:35.1

For years, there have been laws in the books that protect workers from discrimination over

0:39.0

things like age, religion, and gender.

0:42.5

Now companies and lawmakers are focusing on discrimination based on weight.

0:47.0

A new study from an organization of human resource officials that looked at this idea of

0:54.0

weight bias, that an applicant's weight had factored into hiring decisions, and half

0:59.7

of those managers surveyed in a separate poll, they said they preferred interacting with

1:04.5

healthy weight employees.

1:06.3

So they admitted that weight was a factor?

1:08.4

That's right, and we were surprised by that, but yes.

1:11.1

We'll talk with our reporter, Ray Smith, about the hidden career cost of being overweight

1:15.6

after the break.

1:22.1

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Learn more at M-A-Z-A-R-S dot U-S slash forward.

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