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Back in the day I worked at a place that gave everyone pedometers and encouraged everyone to get in at least 10,000 steps a day. Yes, employees were ranked.
Guys in the machine shop figured out you could attach it to a power drill and register 10,000 steps in a couple of minutes.
Why yes, yes the idea was discontinued after that...
Our company did something similar, but you could bring your own (like a Fitbit) and it would sync its data from Fitbit. The thing it didn’t check was the type of data it was getting. The Fitbit app allowed you to manually enter data, not just data it captured from the device. So this got sync’d to the company app as if it was actual data since it didn’t mark it any differently.
I would sit in bed at night and enter a random feasible number every time to hit my goals and get a cut of those sweet rewards.
The companies generally know it can be gameified. Most people don't bother, so they don't really care too much.
Even if Fitbit only allowed data from wearables, you could still hook up a wearable to a fan or similar and get similar results. There's not really a way to avoid it.
Also had a coworker who would put the Fitbit on the handle of his motorcycle while he was driving and the vibrations were interpreted as running.
rewards like new running shoes?
Actually you could exchange for general gift cards.
That's a good idea. An alternative is to put it on your masturbating wrist, and rub one out. That's got to go a long ways to the daily count. Probably works better for men than women.
I knew someone who put it on their happy dog's tail, and he wagged his way to 10K steps.