Zerodha's Nithin Kamath Announces Half A Month's Salary As Bonus For These Employees

Kamath, who himself is a vocal advocate of fitness, announced that an employee having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of less than 25 would get half-a-month's salary as bonus.

Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath (Twitter)

New Delhi: Online broking start-up Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath announced a "fun health program" for employees to remain healthy on the occassion of World Health Day.

Taking to Twitter, Kamath, who himself is a vocal advocate of fitness, announced that an employee having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of less than 25 would get half-a-month's salary as bonus.

He also said that employees in his company who can manage to bring down the average BMI to below 24 by the month of August, would get another half-a-month's salary as a bonus. 

Currently, the average BMI of the Zerodha team is 25.3, he said.

"We are running a fun health program at Zerodha. Anyone on our team with BMI <25 gets half a month's salary as bonus. The avg BMI of our team is 25.3 and if we can get to <24 by Aug, everyone gets another half month as a bonus. It'd be fun to compete with other companies," he tweeted.

In another tweet, Kamath informed that the team with lowest average BMI or largest change in average BMI will win the competition. "The winner chooses a charity everyone else contributes to. Maybe a health tech company can run the initiative," he wrote in his post.

Kamath also urged other companies to participate in the challenge and create a healthy workforce.

In a disclaimer in the end, the Zerodha CEO said while he was aware that BMI wasn't the best measure to track health and fitness, it was the easiest way to get started.

"With health and most other things in life, the most important bit is to get started. Btw, walking 10,000 steps daily is a great start if you've been wanting to get healthy," he tweeted.