Organizational research on weight stigma must center targets’ perspectives

[...]these threats are stressful, impair performance, undermine well-being, and damage health (Major et al., 1998). [...]weight stigma likely puts heavier employees at a professional disadvantage because working memory resources are divided between coping with identity threats and critical job tasks. [...]heavier employees may have less attentional resources to devote to performing tasks and inhibiting task-irrelevant information. Weight stigma harms physical and mental health Weight stigma is also expected to harm heavier employees’ work lives by impacting physical and mental health. [...]weight stigma’s continuous stress stands to contribute to numerous chronic health conditions. [...]beyond its direct stress-related harms, weight stigma is also expected to hinder health and performance by disrupting a key restorative process: sleep.