A Chinese company is making its 100 workers run 2 miles every day if they want to get a better bonus

Mon, 12/18/2023 - 03:44

An Asian male running. — "You'd have to run 2 miles a day to meet the monthly target of 62 miles. So the company wants their staff to be track athletes?" one person wrote on Weibo.
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A company in China really wanted to maintain its employees' fitness.
So it tied its employees' annual bonuses to the number of miles they ran in a month.
Staff have to run around 62 miles every month if they want to snag a higher bonus.

A paper company in Guangdong, China wants its staff to run for their bonuses. Literally.

Guangdong Dongpo Paper's chairman Lin Zhiyong told the media on December 7 that employee bonuses would be determined by the number of miles they ran each month, per Guangzhou Daily.