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title: "Franchise Times: Forget Overtime—Undertime is Real Villain Says Anytime Fitness"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/8df2eae1-1b66-4273-acd7-e1785669ca10
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-forget-overtime-undertime-is-real-villain-says-anytime-fitness-9854
category: "Gym & HVLP"
industry: "Fitness"
segment: "Gym & HVLP"
published: 2017-02-01T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:33:03.877Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/9d46979754e264af8cbc0cf5ea31f23c5887.jpg
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# Franchise Times: Forget Overtime—Undertime is Real Villain Says Anytime Fitness

**TL;DR:** Anytime Fitness co-founders Dave Mortensen and Chuck Runyon discussed employee performance and engagement at the International Franchise Association's annual convention in Las Vegas, highlighting the issue of 'undertime' where employees are physically present but not fully engaged. They emphasized the importance of focusing on 'people, purpose, profits and play' to improve employee engagement.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-02-01. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-forget-overtime-undertime-is-real-villain-says-anytime-fitness-9854).*

## Story

At this year’s International Franchise Association’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’t the issue—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 “people, purpose, profits and play,” which they explained to the keynote audience members.

“Your team, your staff, your customers do not care about how much money you make,” said Mortensen during the address. “But what they do care about is the lives we can impact.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Fitness (sector)
- fitness industry (topic)
- International Franchise Association (company)
- LAS VEGAS (location)
- Anytime Fitness (company)
- employee engagement (topic)
- franchise convention (topic)
- Chuck Runyon (person)
- Dave Mortensen (person)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/franchise-times-forget-overtime-undertime-is-real-villain-says-anytime-fitness-9854). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/8df2eae1-1b66-4273-acd7-e1785669ca10).