Burn calories, earn 1-month bonus: This company announces fitness challenge for its employees

Zerodha, an online brokerage company, has announced a fitness challenge for its employees who can get one month's salary as a bonus after successfully completing it. A lucky competitor could even win Rs 10 lakh. CEO Nithin Kamath said the challenge would involve burning at least 350 calories a day. Setting daily goals will be an option on the company's fitness trackers.

"Anyone meeting whatever goal set on 90% of the days over the next year gets one month's salary as a bonus," Nithin Kamath said. Kamath said his company was trying its best to motivate employees to be active while working from home.

Our latest health challenge at @zerodhaonline is to give an option to set a daily activity goal on our fitness trackers. Anyone meeting whatever goal set on 90 of the days over next year gets 1 month salary as a bonus. One lucky draw of Rs 10lks as a motivation kicker.13

— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) September 24, 2022

This is not the first time that the company has announced a fitness challenge. Earlier in April this year, Zerodha had announced incentives for employees for losing weight. Kamath had said that employees with a body mass index (BMI) lower than 25 would be given half a month's salary as bonus.

He added that if, by August, an employee can bring their BMI under 24, they would receive the salary of another 15 days as bonus.

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