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" Body Fat Makes You a Target of Incivility at Work"

Research Finding 

The more body fat an employee carries, the greater the chances he or she will experience discourteous workplace behaviors such as (a)interrupting, (b)failing to return greetings, and (c) not refilling printer paper, etc.

For example, in one study, overweight people reported higher levels of such forms of incivility than their healthy-weight peers (2.48 versus 1.53 on a 1-to-5 scale).

Obesity may be “one of the last legally and socially acceptable” targets of workplace discrimination, the researchers say.

Courtesy : according to a team led by Katherine A. Sliter of Bowling Green State University.