The first line in this Employee Benefit News essay says it all.  And yet these contests still exist, thus showing that some corporate IT department directors should be fired, for failing to connect their organizations to the internet.

And, as our recent HealthyWage-Schlumberger write-up showed, the results are fabricated anyway.  The odds that the HealthyWage results were legitimate are about the same as the odds of winning the lottery 1000 times.