This Indian Firm Offers One Month's Salary As Incentive To Employees Who Meet Their Health Goals

Thanks to the pandemic, the one thing we all have realised is how important is our physical and mental health. But even though we have been trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it gets slightly difficult considering the various pressures on our head - especially our work.

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However, an Indian firm is making sure that nobody ignores their health and in an attempt to encourage its employees and help them maintain a work-life balance, this company has come up with a creative ¡¯12-month get-healthy goal¡¯ programme.

This was shared by the CEO, Nithin Kamath of his company, Zerodha. He wrote about the impact of the pandemic and how their workforce was the ¡°unhealthiest ever¡± due to various aspects such as lack of physical activity, work-life imbalance and bad diet, among others.

To push the team towards a healthier lifestyle, the company will reward employees who make transformations in their life. He mentioned how to increase the participation, the company along with a 1-month salary will have a lucky draw where the winner will get a reward worth Rs 10 lakhs.

On our internal forum(@discourse), we asked everyone to set a 12-month get-healthy goal & update the progress every month, to create accountability. To increase participation, we said everyone who reaches the goal will get a 1-month salary as bonus & 1 lucky draw for Rs 10lks 2/3

¡ª Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) August 28, 2021

Since being shared online, the post has gone viral on social media. While many praised the company¡¯s initiative, others wondered if it would actually work.

Great minds think differently. Inspiring

¡ª Geetu Moza (@Geetu_Moza) August 28, 2021

Excellent piece of information. Not achieving the goals should not be demotivating for the individuals otherwise it can affect health of the individuals. Considering the effective R&R program, I'm interested to know what happened to the individuals who couldn't achieve the goals.

¡ª Kartik Kamdar (@KartikPKamdar) August 28, 2021

Awesome Nithin. More and more of our entrepreneurs need come use some.of their creativity to improve well being of their employees.

¡ª Ani Borkar (@asinaib) August 29, 2021

This is awesome! This is in a way epic as it shows the company understands long term investment. Best investment is in people.

¡ª L (@kami7999) August 28, 2021

You are real employee centric enterpreneur , You set the goal for employee not as standard ritual as to click the photos and post to linkedin but also kept some tangible benefit for the goal, hatts off to you.

¡ª HARSHAL WANI (@harshalwani1111) August 28, 2021

Great initiative and encouragement to employees which translates into higher productivity with belongingness

¡ª Satyanarayana Repala (@SATYAREPALA) August 29, 2021

An initiative like this is a great way to motivate employees to stay fit while working hard for the company.