Stepping into a new role at work and this is one of my duties.
So far we've implemented free lunch once a week and social events once every few months.
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On site daycare, flexible hours, work from home
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If I was working, unlimited coffee or an espresso machine, yummy snacks in the break room (biscotti, cookies, crackers etc), soda in the fridge.
In my current role, the ability to go to the bathroom without an audience
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@MamaBehr: oh yah we have coffee, tea, and soda also already
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I'm just amazed that so many people on this site work at places with free lunches, free snacks, free drinks, etc. ... this is totally foreign to me! Sounds awesome though, I think it would be great.
We have a water fountain and a nasty old coffee machine with super gross coffee. That's it! LOL.If I was adding stuff, I would also add healthy options to all the treats... like maybe easy storing whole fruit (apples, bananas), healthy granola bars, nuts, trail mix, maybe some cut up raw veggies, etc.
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Free drinks and breakfast would be nice. With healthy options!
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Free/discounted admission to cultural attractions, tickets to special events, discounts at retailers, etc. I also love me some swag, with subtle logos.
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Onsite daycare, onsite gym and/or aerobic classes.
My team implemented a peer to peer award program, which has gone over very well, if you don't have something like it already. Basically anyone can nominate a peer to thank them for a job well done. It is loosely monitored, but awards go right through. The reward is a $10 gift card-recipients choice of Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, gas or Best Buy.
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I love love love having a dedicated assistant. At my last job I had a pool of secretaries so no one would take responsibility for a project or just learn my travel profile (I'd get booked on 5am flights on the airport 2 hours from me instead of the one 20 minutes from me even though out preferred airline flew out of both. . . .). My current assistant is pure gold.
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We have a lot of great perks at my workplace and I'm not sure if all of them would work for every employer/employee but it's worth putting them out there for you. I've been at this job for 7 months and these are some perks we have gotten:
My position and most management roles have great family flexibility and remote working options. We all have laptops to make doing so easy as well as for presentations, conferences, meetings and those kinds of needs. There are a few Keurigs in various areas with coffee pods and cups/mugs and fixings available. They have a gym membership reimbursement at a gym close to our lab. It's free as long as you go 18x/quarter. Then the top 3 gym attendees get grocery store gift cards or similar each quarter as well. They have incentives like that for writing blog posts for the website. On Valentine's Day the CEO bought a prix fix dinner at a nice restaurant in town and they raffled it off to anyone who could attend the reservation. A local food truck came out and catered lunch for every employee one day. Before the holidays (and apparently every season) a local BBQ restaurant comes and caters a holiday lunch where they do gift card raffles and a costume contest.
The benefits plan things are conveyed as givens. They really seem to be of the mindset that it is earned and you are trusted with remote working and the equipment to do so. For the fun stuff, I think it really works because they are careful not to set up too much that is 'expected'. They don't offer something every month for 6 months and then quit as people are getting used to it. -
@lindseykaye I would love it if a food truck came by the office. We have such good ones in my area, but they are often slightly too far away for a lunch run.
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I would love it if we got free soft drinks and tea (we have free coffee and water), free lunch once a month, and flexibility to work from home part of the week. It would be super nice if we closed early on Fridays during the summer too.
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My favorite perks at my office are an on-site gym with free classes (yoga, spin, boot camp, weight training, golf lessons, etc.) and free personal trainer sessions.
We also have a huge cafeteria with legit GOOD food.
One of the nicest things is a points-based reward system, where you can be rewarded points by anyone else for exceptional work on a project and you redeem the points for really nice stuff (not hokey crap) - expensive skincare, gift cards to thousands of places, Burberry stuff, Michael Kors purses, etc. legit stuff.
We all have laptops and can work remotely; and the company stresses working from home and/ or taking PTO when you need - for whatever reason. The supportive atmosphere is the best , and something that has to come from the very top.
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We used to have summer Fridays- for 8 weeks in the summer we closed at 3 on Fridays (client facing people would be sort of "on call" remotely and forward our work phones to our cells). I was really bummed they took it away.
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I'd love it if there was a Keurig or coffee machine in the office!
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We have a keurig too with oodles of selection. And tea. And snacks - healthy and unhealthy.
We are a smallish office, and we have Friday breakfast. Everyone pays for their own breakfast, but we chat and it's during work hours. Sometimes the big boss comes and pays. It's totally our choice if we want to go or not.
Also, we get like, $200/year from the company toward something health and fitness related. Like, I put it towards a bike. But you gym membership, running shoes, a fitness class, stuff like that.
I wish we had an official flex day policy, but currently there's this quiet understanding that if your work gets done and you need a mental health day or your kid is sick, nobody is really looking. But I always feel guilty.
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@Applesandbananas: those are pretty damn awesome perks. I like!!! mind if I ask what/where you work??
We have a fully stocked snack kitchen with free coffee and sodas along with an assortment of snacks. The pickings get slim starting wednesday afternoon, but they restock Monday morning.
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on site daycare, a cafeteria/lunch options, and free pop (although this one could be bad)
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I'd like some things that have been taken away:
-The ability to work the shift you want
-The ability to work from home sometimes
-The ability to shift your shift if you have an early or late doctor's appointment.But my company does Summer Friday's where we get every Friday off from June through August. You work 8 hours M-Th and have a three day weekend. That is pretty nice.
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I'd just be happy with an ice machine in the office at this point. . . My relatively new job is a bit more old school and cheap than I'm used to.
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our work used to have free birthdays off! so you got a paid day off on top of your regular vacation days. if your birthday fell on a weekend, you could take it any time within the month.
mostly, i would just LOVE the ability to work from home full time. my 4 hour a day commute is murdering me
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There are some great things here. We have a free gym onsite, and a full restaurant (with cheaper pricing), but neither of those appeal to me. I have a gym membership elsewhere that I would rather use and I always bring my lunch. What I would really love and appreciate would be more flexibility in my week.
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I would love an onsite daycare. Several of my friend's companies have backup childcare plans. Basically, the company contracts with a local nanny service and employees can get a nanny if their childcare provider needs off or their child can't go to school/daycare for some reason (random school holidays anyone?)
I really like that we have Weight Watchers @ Work because I don't have time to go to a meeting otherwise, but in my experience it is only sustainable if you have a pretty large office.
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