What Is a Work Perk Worth?
One of the trends B4J is keeping an eye on in 2016 is the growing popularity of unique perk and benefit packages as a way for employers to differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace. These packages can come bundled with a generous salary, but increasingly, as trends in tech HR spread to other industries, they supplement […]
Mental Health Is More Than a Work Perk
A growing number of companies, startups and venerable giants alike, are addressing mental health at work in a big way. Google offers stress management classes. Appster has regular and anonymous venting sessions where employees can let it all hang out. Apps like Joyable claim to aid in self-help. Services like PeopleSpark aim to improve communication between […]
Top Five: Work Perk Watch
So you may have noticed that I have a fascination with startup work perks. I’ve written about good perks and bad perks, family-oriented perks and performance boosting perks. I’ve written a lot about perks. While it’s true that perks are rarely on the top of a job seeker’s list of priorities and play less of […]
Parental Work Perks That Don’t Work
It was hot news earlier this year that more and more companies are providing egg-freezing services for their employees and increasingly, millennial women are carefully planning the parenthood phase of their lives by taking these companies up on these services. It’s also hot news whenever a tech giant or unicorn offers breast milk delivery or […]
Ep 50 – Creative Company Perks That Retain Employees
The job market is hot, hot, hot and retention is a top concern for companies, but it’s not just compensation that can keep employees at your company. Recently Netflix announced their new “unlimited” paid parental leave while LuLu Lemon offers a vision and goal setting program that seeks to align your personal and professional goals. Creative […]
Top Five Unique Work Perks — That Work
According to the Wall Street Journal, work perks are expanding even outside of Silicon Valley. And with good reason: happy employees can lead to a happier bottom line. Outside the stratosphere of Silicon Valley extreme work perks, smaller and regional companies are finding success with targeted perks: “More than 11% of waste-management companies provide free snacks and […]
