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At this year&rsquo;s International Franchise Association&rsquo;s annual convention in Las Vegas, kilt-clad Anytime Fitness co-founders Dave Mortensen and Chuck Runyon gave a lively keynote address focusing on employee performance and engagement. Overtime, they said, wasn&rsquo;t the issue&mdash;it was employees who are present, but only physically.

According to salary.com, 89 percent of employees reported wasting time at work, 16 percent waste around two hours a day, and 31 percent reported wasting around an hour a day. When Mortenson first learned about these statistics, he immediately began brainstorming ways to tackle that kind of lack in employee engagement at Anytime Fitness. Now, they focus on &ldquo;people, purpose, profits and play,&rdquo; which they explained to the keynote audience members.

&ldquo;Your team, your staff, your customers do not care about how much money you make,&rdquo; said Mortensen during the address. &ldquo;But what they do care about is the lives we can impact.&rdquo;

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