How Google Tricked Its Employees Into Losing Weight

New Google Employees are warned to expect to gain 15 pounds upon joining the company.

The reason? Their Environment is subtly encouraging them to overeat.
Sometimes without them even realizing it - according to a post on Quora by an ex-employee.

00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Googlers Gain Weight
02:01 - Environment Vs Behavior
03:42 - Cue + Convenience
05:12- How Google Did It
05:14 - i. Increasing Water
06:38 - ii. Reducing Snacking
7:59 - iii. Reducing Junk Food
9:21 - iv. Increasing Healthy Food
10:07 - Tips: Lose Weight Like Google

We discuss how much influence our environment can exert over our actions, how Google used Behavioural Science to help it's employees cut down 3.1 million calories in just 7 weeks time, the concept of 'behavior nudging' coined by Nobel Prize winning economist Richard Thaler - and how the environment we find ourselves in can either support or undermine our weight loss goals.

If you're interested in more information, Richard Thaler's book 'Nudge' is an interesting look into these and other cognitive biases that affect our decision making: https://amzn.to/3fsA5MV




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