Looking for creative employee benefits solutions? Look what some innovative companies are doing for their employees.
10 Perks We Love
Pressed for time
McGraw Wentworth, a provider of group benefits, offers on-site pickups and return of clothes that need laundering.
A free ride
Workers at Cooper Pest Solutions can use company vehicles for their commutes. Light trucks for service technicians; Toyota Scions for sales folks.
Lunch is served
Dealer.com, which helps auto dealers with their online marketing, serves locally grown organic treats in its on-site café. Employees can have their subsidized meals delivered deskside.
Swept off your feet
Akraya, an IT staffing company, sends professional cleaners to employees' homes every two weeks.
Bonus prizes
Van Meter Industrial, a distributor of automation and electrical products, awards points for activities such as participating in its Biggest Loser contest and walking campaigns. Employees redeem points for personal fitness items, such as running shoes, golf clubs, and jogging strollers.
Do your own thing
Azavea, a maker of mapping software, follows Googlesque practices of letting employees spend up to 10 percent of their time on research projects of their own devising.
Bon voyage!
LoadSpring Solutions, an enterprise software company, believes people grow by experiencing other cultures. Employees who travel abroad for vacation receive up to $5,000 and an extra week off to expand their horizons.
Bring the kids
Fentress Architects invites employees' relatives to participate in some of the evening and weekend classes offered through its in-house education program.
Dinner's on us
After five years at NewAge Industries, a manufacturer of plastic tubing, each employee receives a yearly $720 charge card to use in the restaurant of the William Penn Inn, a 296-year-old landmark near the company's headquarters in Southampton, Pennsylvania.
Helping you help out
Patagonia, the outdoor-apparel maker, gives employees two weeks of full-paid leave to work for the green nonprofit of their choice.
Links:
[1] http://www.inc.com/top-workplaces/2010/profile/new-york-jets-woody-johnson.html
[2] http://www.inc.com/ss/portionpac-great-place-work
[3] http://www.inc.com/top-workplaces/2010/index.html
[4] http://www.inc.com/top-workplaces/2010/a-look-inside-the-un-factory.html
[5] http://www.inc.com/top-workplaces/2010/how-to-build-a-beautiful-company.html
Those are some pretty nifty benefits. The closest I've come is free coke in the break room.
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