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> I get extra subsidy for health insurance at work if I walk 7000 steps a day - $750 per year.

Really? How does this work? Your company tracks how many steps you take?

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Yes, through an app called Virgin Pulse. It hooks into Apple Health and syncs steps with it when you start it up.

There is also a portion that tracks your sleep habits, but it requires you to enable the Bedtime feature on the iPhone, which I don't want to do.

"My employer tracks my biometrics as a condition of my compensation sounds like dystopian scifi. Welcome to the future?

Not even as a condition! Willing opt-in

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Yes, through an app called Virgin Pulse. It hooks into Apple Health and syncs steps with it when you start it up.

There is also a portion that tracks your sleep habits, but it requires you to enable the Bedtime feature on the iPhone, which I don't want to do.

"My employer tracks my biometrics as a condition of my compensation sounds like dystopian scifi. Welcome to the future?

Not even as a condition! Willing opt-in

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse