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5/16/13 - Retrofit Uses Technology for Weight Loss GoalsRetrofit CEO Jeff Hyman has created a weight-loss tool for corporate professionals - and it’s growing rapidly in popularity. … more »
4/25/13 - Data-driven Weight Loss: Jeff Hyman '95 Harnesses High Tech for a New Data-driven Weight Loss Company
…Retrofit started with a focus on the individual and has started targeting large corporations like Walgreens, Salesforce.com, Google and Jetblue Airways — currently 70 have signed up to encourage their employees to join Retrofit. After all, if a company can get its overweight workforce to shed weight, productivity could rise and health care costs could fall. People are signing up now on the strength of recommendations from friends and colleagues because Retrofit, unlike fad diets, actually seems to work. … more »
…Retrofit started with a focus on the individual and has started targeting large corporations like Walgreens, Salesforce.com, Google and Jetblue Airways — currently 70 have signed up to encourage their employees to join Retrofit. After all, if a company can get its overweight workforce to shed weight, productivity could rise and health care costs could fall. People are signing up now on the strength of recommendations from friends and colleagues because Retrofit, unlike fad diets, actually seems to work. … more »
4/18/13 - A Positive Spin On Fitness Pumps Up Worker Results
Experts advise lightening up with science-savvy, easy-to-implement approaches to trimming the ranks. Face it. This bottom line keeps expanding: 68% of U.S. workers are overweight or obese, and they're 200% less productive while costing 700% more in health care. … Little wonder companies aim for a firm grip on fitness. "We'll get buried under it economically if we don't," Kimberly Williams, Retrofit chief operating officer, told IBD. Create new routines. Williams' company helps professionals drop pounds with individual mentoring on exercise and nutrition. How to change ingrained habits?Teach new approaches — such as the science of what to eat and when — and cheer small victories. "That lets people feel successful and confident," Williams said … more »
Experts advise lightening up with science-savvy, easy-to-implement approaches to trimming the ranks. Face it. This bottom line keeps expanding: 68% of U.S. workers are overweight or obese, and they're 200% less productive while costing 700% more in health care. … Little wonder companies aim for a firm grip on fitness. "We'll get buried under it economically if we don't," Kimberly Williams, Retrofit chief operating officer, told IBD. Create new routines. Williams' company helps professionals drop pounds with individual mentoring on exercise and nutrition. How to change ingrained habits?Teach new approaches — such as the science of what to eat and when — and cheer small victories. "That lets people feel successful and confident," Williams said … more »
3/14/13 - The 50 Most Innovative Health, Fitness, and Happiness Startups
32. Retrofit After Jeff Hyman and his wife changed their lives with a team of experts at a weight-loss resort, Hyman left his desk job and founded Retrofit in 2010. The Chicago-based, data-driven weight management company … helps users lose weight with a real-world approach, tackling obesity one working professional at a time. The program means business. … more »
32. Retrofit After Jeff Hyman and his wife changed their lives with a team of experts at a weight-loss resort, Hyman left his desk job and founded Retrofit in 2010. The Chicago-based, data-driven weight management company … helps users lose weight with a real-world approach, tackling obesity one working professional at a time. The program means business. … more »
3/5/13 - 9 Successful People Who Work From Home
Marissa Mayer recently demanded all Yahoo employees work in a corporate office. They're no longer allowed to work from home, unless it's with good reason. Yahoo has faced world-wide backlash for this decision. That's because many people have proved to be successful, despite not working in an office environment. … "Retrofit CEO Jeff Hyman and Retrofit CMO Kim Evenson both work approximately 80% from home and 20% in the office," a company spokesperson tells Business Insider. "Jeff chose not to have offices, as he realizes the value of hiring A-players from all over the country. Jeff believes you can work from home and still maintain quality control and consistency." … more »
Marissa Mayer recently demanded all Yahoo employees work in a corporate office. They're no longer allowed to work from home, unless it's with good reason. Yahoo has faced world-wide backlash for this decision. That's because many people have proved to be successful, despite not working in an office environment. … "Retrofit CEO Jeff Hyman and Retrofit CMO Kim Evenson both work approximately 80% from home and 20% in the office," a company spokesperson tells Business Insider. "Jeff chose not to have offices, as he realizes the value of hiring A-players from all over the country. Jeff believes you can work from home and still maintain quality control and consistency." … more »
2/9/13 - Why Sitting Increases Your Risk of Dying Sooner…Finding a way to reduce sitting time can certainly be challenging, and requires diligence and dedication. Retrofit, a unique data-driven weight management company based in Chicago has developed innovative ways to assist individuals as well as corporate clients lose weight by offering real world solutions to promote healthy workplace behaviors and eating habits. …Jeff Hyman, CEO of Retrofit, believes that “willpower is highly overrated” and that his company offers tangible solutions to “effectively change eating behaviors, while providing necessary emotional support” to its clients. Employees of Vista Staffing Solutions, based in Salt Lake City, a physician staffing company–whose members often spend 10-12 hours a day sitting– recently won an essay contest organized by Retrofit offering complementary onsite weight loss services. … Clarke Shaw, Executive Vice President of Vista, states … that employees have “embraced Retrofit’s technology within the first 4 weeks, and appear highly motivated at work”… more »
1/2/13 - The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, GadgetsAnd Startups Of 2012
…The health space is always in a state of transformation, but its evolution has accelerated of late, and technology is playing an increasingly vital role in this development. … Increased government involvement in health insurance and delivery (via ObamaCare), mobile technology, next-gen networks, Big Data and analytics are all having a disruptive effect on the industry, and startups have moved to take advantage. For Quantified Self devotees, data-vores and the fitness conscious it’s a great time to be alive. … Everyone has their own individual agenda, but collectively we’re all bound to be making a few health-related resolutions in preparation for 2013 and beyond. … Retrofit allows users to set small, achievable weight loss goals — one pound per week is the typical maximum target — and private Skype video sessions with real, live fitness instructors to combat empty promises and increase healthy outcomes. … more »
12/31/12 - NFLPA, Retrofit Help Former Players Get FitRetrofit VP of Business Development Reggie Smith discusses new fitness technology. He speaks with Dominic Chu on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." … more »
11/13/12 - New Weight-Loss Tech Helping Companies Curb Health-Care CostsThe weight loss gadgets, apps and Internet services now entering the market hail from stalwarts in the industry like Weight Watchers International and NutriSystem as well as start-ups like Retrofit and MyOnlineDR … more »
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6/1/12 - The Perfected Self Retrofit users track their eating and exercise online and have weekly Skype sessions with a registered dietician… (If a client loses 10 percent of his or her weight by the end of the year, Hyman doubles these three employees' compensation for that particular client.) After the year is up, clients can still arrange occasional consultations, and Retrofit continues to monitor their weight via wireless scale, so that a coach can reach out if the number starts to rise. "We have no interest in helping you lose weight temporarily," says Hyman. "We want you to keep weight off." more » |
