What are the little perks which your employer gives you?
We are trying to improve the perks which we offer – we are currently quite fortunate with the big stuff – decent salaries, decent pension contributions, healthcare, salary sacrifice car scheme, dental & optical appointments reimbursed, cycle to work. We’ve got a good bean to cup machine, one hundred different types of tea bags, fruit / healthy snacks which are all free. A really nice modern office with a 3/2 hybrid option, they are pretty flexible with working hours too. Free electric car charging. On the face of it, all perfect - but in reality, there are the usual management gripes which also need addressing.
It’s not that people take these benefits/ perks for granted but I’m curious about what other companies are also offering e.g. gym memberships, learning packages, volunteering days? Or what are the things that you would really value and make your job/ day better or more pleasant?
We do nice tea and coffee at the offices.
Birthday as a holiday day.
But most importantly, we are a really nice and supportive place to work and fight hard to maintain that reputation and reality for our team.
We are a charity, so most folk are not here for the money or perks.
In HE so not loads, but pension and holidays are best. We have a retailer discount scheme that's been quite handy - 4-10% off, and I've saved about £300 in the last year. Sometimes it's a bit of a faff - buying prepaid gift cards, but the savings soon add up. Saved a fair but at Halfords (car parts), B&Q and Currys (new telly and monitor). Use it for Morrisons and Iceland as well.
Our pension is pretty pathetic really - its up to me to salary sacrifice. But we can work anywhere we want and the discretionary bonus is good. Oh and 30 days off plus birthday. Gym, online doc etc. Good for a private company.
I also work in HE - so not much, however... we get to pick private healthcare (help with dental appointments) or on site gym membership.
We've got Tech scheme that works like the cycle to work scheme that resulted in my buying a very expensive Dobly Atmos setup from Currys.
We also have the Vivup - you can purchase vouchers for slightly less than the cost to save a few pounds here & there. Vivup also have a storefront & you can purchase items for much more money than you can else where.
Local Gov here, so get a decent pension and some other stuff (option for C2W equivalent) in additiona to the thigns that Sweden pretty much has as standard. The money is not brilliant, but the biggest advantage for me is the ability to work 100% remote if I want. The money and time it saves over having to commute to some place like Solna or Kista, or having to move to Stockholm, is priceless.
That said, I am not doing this job for the money. If I was, I'd still be in Stockholm and pimping myself out as a consultant or working for a bank right now.
I'm pretty fortunate to get most of the benefits listed above. In addition we used to get about £40 per month to put towards 'fitness' related expenses, this has been swapped for 4 x extra holiday days but on pre-defined days (we are a US co and also get 'Juneteenth' as a holiday). I also have a 6 week paid sabbatical for 10 years service this year. My (first world) problem is that with all this and bank hiolidays I usually have more leave than I can take (I work in sales so constantly have things going on that I find difficult to drop).
In HE so not loads, but pension and holidays are best. We have a retailer discount scheme that's been quite handy - 4-10% off
Also HE. We don't get all the cool stuff that PrinceJohn gets! But we do get free eye tests (so long as you're prepared for it to take 2 hours while a student does it). And you can get the Apple Educational Discount, which they're steadily chipping away at, but it's still better than a poke in the eye.
Still though, a university campus is a nice place to be, and it's generally a very supportive place to work.
I've never been arsed to use the Vivup stuff. Seems like such a faff. But maybe I should give it a go?
Oh, also - we can become members of the music centre. Which, before I had Long COVID, i'd be down at least 3 times a week to practice the drums, for free. That's a great deal.
I'm in the public sector so really good pension (with various top up options) and 8 weeks annual leave (incl bank hols) are the biggies. Option to buy an extra week of annual leave (so I have 9 weeks) is something I like - popularity seems to vary by department. Bike to work and a corporate discount scheme also useful for some.
Biggest improvement would be providing decent facilities for staff (decent chairs, desks, lighting, somewhere to eat lunch, cleaners that cleaned instead of sleeping) and management listening to, engaging and listening to staff and fixing broken stuff) and providing us with the tools needed to do our job. No point having a weekly staff engagement meeting for people to dial into if your staff only have 1 desk phone between 16, 1 computer between 2, and no one has been issued with headsets for the computers.
I look at that list.....and you think people need more?
It is work they are going to - not a fun club.
But as Matt says - atmosphere trumps all else - and that can't be bought or given as a voucher. Controversially.....workplace atmosphere not all 'management' driven. Colleagues can make it break a workplace too. A pledge of 'we won't employ any annoying nobbers no matter how good they look on paper or how desperate we are' would go a long way.....or slightly more seriously an employment process where their potential colleagues had the opportunity to meet candidates and input into if they would be a good fit.
I’m paid from when I leave the house, which is nice.
Overtime in the morning counts even if I get home early
We get ours through Zhoosh, employer puts £120 into our pot each month to go on various benefits or top up our pension
Benefits we can opt into
-income protection
-life insurance
-private medical insurance
-critical illness cover
-medicash cash plan
-dental cover
-C2W
-Electric car scheme
-L&G Employee assistance
-Tax free childcare
-Eye care
-discounted mortgage advisors
-Shopping card (love2shop)
-Cinema tickets
and then theres a discount hub thing where you can get % off various retailer gift cards 12% on adidas, 8% american golf, 9% costa, 6.5% M&S 11% toby carvery etc.
I tend not to use most of them mind, signed me and the mrs up to private medical insurance which includes £400 of dental treatment a year, already covered on life insurance and critical illness cover. The income protection was costly so the remaining £80 every month just gets used to top off my pension. Was going to use C2W but it was capped at 5k and the bike I wanted was more than that, might use it in future for some accessories mind
Give the Vivup a go @doris5000. Halfords is useful and usually stack it with another discount. And those where you can get 4% off a voucher, it's like cash, so doesn't interfere with any discounts. It's a bit of a faff. I have to make sure I pre-load my 'one for all card', but it saves me 7% at Iceland - our very local supermarket, and 4% at Morrisons - needs a voucher buying, but it's all on your phone.
Previous place - terrible. A C2W scheme that wasn't worth the paper it was written on with so many ridiculous caveats it was basically impossible to buy a bike that way. A range of apparent "perks" provided by an external agency which amounted to things like 1.5% off total spend at Boots if you spent more than £90 in a single transaction or 5% off a family of 4 at CentreParcs if you went Tuesday to Friday during term time or 3% off cinema tickets if it was for the first screening on a Wednesday morning. Mostly unusable nonsense.
Current place - really good. C2W with a £7000 limit, no restrictions (and I've used it already!). Salary sacrifice schemes to buy all sorts of products; lifestyle, homeware, cooking, audio/visual... It's all more expensive than high street prices but when you consider that it doesn't involve any credit agreements or interest payments, it's just a straightforward salary deduction, I guess it could be very attractive to some people. A salary sacrifice car lease scheme. 30 days holiday plus birthday. Very flexible working arrangements and a really good team of people.
Does not compute - please explain this concept.
I'm not poorly paid, but I live in a small house in the country and so have minimal outgoings. My skills/experience are rare and my work ethic since 2008-ish has been to try and do something with them that benefits society and not just me, hence the Army Reserves, hence current (and previous) job.
I fell off the wagon slightly when I first came to Sweden (worked for a bank) but managed to find a place where I could contribute to society after two years.
And those where you can get 4% off a voucher, it's like cash, so doesn't interfere with any discounts. It's a bit of a faff. I have to make sure I pre-load my 'one for all card', but it saves me 7% at Iceland - our very local supermarket, and 4% at Morrisons - needs a voucher buying, but it's all on your phone.
Thanks - can you elaborate? So you buy a £50 voucher for Tesco or whatever, then.... it's emailed to you?
Which you wave in front of the self-service scanner every time you shop, until it's run out?
God, I sound like some elderly luddite here. But it's surprisingly hard to find out how it actually works in practice...
We don't get all the cool stuff that PrinceJohn gets! But we do get free eye tests (so long as you're prepared for it to take 2 hours while a student does it). And you can get the Apple Educational Discount, which they're steadily chipping away at, but it's still better than a poke in the eye.
Oh yeah I also get educational discounts when I remember - I have Strava premium @50% off, & the saving I made on my macbook allowed me to get Applecare for free basically.
I think we also do some kind of electric car scheme.
Contentious opinion perhaps (I know, I was shocked too) but, most benefits schemes are crap IME. Absolutely no-one wants some bought-in programme where they can earn Flibble Points to buy Flibblebucks to spend in House Of Fraser. Put the money you save on nonsense towards a sizeable payrise across the board, "money" is a perk everyone will get behind.
One time my employer of the day bought everyone a branded coffee mug. A "perk" no-one really wanted but eh, saves bringing your own in and avoids "hey, who's taken my mug?!" dramaz. Then it turned into a mandate, everyone had to use company-provided mugs and personal ones weren't allowed on desks. Then it transpired that the cheap shit mugs they'd bought couldn't handle hot drinks, about half of them shattered. One girl had to go to hospital after being scalded when one exploded in her hand.
Perks for me would be quality-of-life enhancements: not having to commute into the office unless there was an actual reason to beyond presenteeism; being measured on output rather than raw hours; not having to pay for parking if I did come into an office; no dress code beyond not looking like a scruff; if I'm doing site visits then a sensible policy around travel/accommodation; not being expected to work for free; non-smokers getting the same breaks as smokers; equipment allocated by need rather than status (eg, Directors getting £3k laptops to browse the web whilst all the engineers are allocated Etch-a-Sketches); all this sort of stuff goes towards making a workplace Not Shit and much of it is free to the business.
Back when I had apprentices I implemented policies like this wherever it was within my power. I need you in the office if there's bench work. You don't need to ask permission to go for a poo, though if you're going to be a while then let me know in case someone asks after you. You need to leave early then that's fine and I don't need to know why, so long as there's nothing outstanding; by turns when we're reacting to an emergency I expect the same courtesy from you if we need to work back for 15 minutes. You're grown-ass adults and I couldn't give a shit if you turn up at 8:32 unless you're supposed to be manning a phone line which opens at that time (and in that case I'd want to pay you from 8:15 to allow you time to get set up for the morning, though that might be hard to fly past Upper Manglement).
A pledge of 'we won't employ any annoying nobbers no matter how good they look on paper or how desperate we are' would go a long way.....or slightly more seriously an employment process where their potential colleagues had the opportunity to meet candidates and input into if they would be a good fit.
You need to be just a little bit careful with this one because "not fitting with the culture" is a bawhair away from a discrimination case. If you've got a shop floor full of Daily Express readers and you're interviewing an Afghani immigrant then they're probably not going to be a great cultural fit, but what really needs to change there is the culture.
(I know that's not what you were meaning here, just saying that it can be a minefield if you're not savvy about it)
We get given just over 20k per year to 'spend' on benefits - most of mine goes into my pension and pays for private medical cover and extra holiday. And some smaller stuff like gym, various insurances etc.
We also have access to salary sacrifice electric cars, various tech, C2W etc.
We get given just over 20k per year to 'spend' on benefits
Where on earth do you work (and are you hiring)? That's a salary in itself for some people.
Back when I had apprentices I implemented policies like this wherever it was within my power. I need you in the office if there's bench work. You don't need to ask permission to go for a poo, though if you're going to be a while then let me know in case someone asks after you. You need to leave early then that's fine and I don't need to know why, so long as there's nothing outstanding; by turns when we're reacting to an emergency I expect the same courtesy from you if we need to work back for 15 minutes. You're grown-ass adults and I couldn't give a shit if you turn up at 8:32...
Micro-management is the absolute bane of office life - almost invariably there'll be some petty middle-manager in the office clock-watching others, demanding to know why your break was 35 minutes instead of 30, quibbling over dress code...
After 5 years we can get a 6 month sabatical or split into two three month periods. I've used that now but it was great. You can also request unpaid leave if you run out of holidayds.
Nothing, not even cycle to work scheme or even a tea bag
We've got a decent set of benefits here, plenty of those listed above, but it's the intangibles which really make a difference. Twenty years ago, my mother died while I was working for a very large well-known insurance company. I took two weeks off, between her death and funeral, and returned to work to plenty of sympathy from my manager but also the words, 'You've got 3 days of compassionate leave. How do you want to take the rest, unpaid or holiday?' I spent the rest of the year measuring out my little remaining leave and resentful.
I have just returned to work after my father's death. My leave has been paid, with no questions. The MD of the company sat down with me to check that I was ok. People have stopped to chat and check-in. It's a very different experience.
But, I would like a decent dental plan through work before my last remaining teeth escape!
Other than a pension, paid parking pass for local council car park and tea/coffee we don't have any perks....
Small company of 8 people...
Fairly flexible with WFH and appointments etc.
There has been mutterings of health care or salary sacrifice car scheme, but nothing concrete.
I work for a big ish multi national and apart from them matching up to 7% on pension we don't get much. However, the one thing that stops me leaving is the holiday. We get 25 days plus bank holidays but we can buy an additional 10 days (used to be 5), which I buy every year and always use.
An organisation within central gov:
- 35 % pension (Inc. my contribution of 7 % or so)
- Decent annual leave, annually increasing
- Annual leave purchase/selling (although the latter is taxed!)
- Massive flexibility. I compress my hours. Appointments are no issue.
- Decent training budget, got colleagues doing Masters, etc.
- Salary sacrifice stuff, C2W, etc.
- I can work in a significant number of locations
Not the obvious ones compared to private sector, but some I would struggle to put a price on..
Free tea and coffee (instant).
How does the buying holiday days thing work, is it just a case of giving up the salary you would have gotten for those days?
I got a badge for my 10 year anniversary.
That insurance company that I mentioned in my post above gave me £50 vouchers for my 5 year anniversary. Staff who were there for 15 years were given shares and also taken to a Six Nations game, private box, post match dinner with ex-players.
So, when I approached my 10 year anniversary I was looking forward to something nice. We actually got a forgettable dinner with a bunch of people I'd never met (other 10 year celebrants!) in a local hotel. And a glass paperweight thing, which went to the tip when I last moved. I was more puzzled than anything.
Share Options/ Save
We get various other stuff but TBH it's hard to see past this. The COVID era sharesave maturities started coming through last year and the returns are just silly. Some months I was getting a four figure sum for what amounted to an £88 deduction 60 months previous.
We get the minimum pension contribution, and salary sacrifice options for cyclescheme and a health plan. Oh, and birthday off.
Perks I've seen elsewhere I like are more holiday and higher pension contributions. I personally don't really care about any of the other stuff you often see.
Where MrsSalmon works they've got some scheme which is basically @Cougar's Flibblebucks as far as I can see. She's tried to use it in Sainsbury's a couple of times and nobody seems to know anything about it.
We get given just over 20k per year to 'spend' on benefits
Where on earth do you work (and are you hiring)? That's a salary in itself for some people.
Ours is structured similar in that there is a sizeable 'pension and benefits' element to remuneration, although it is a percentage rather than a flat amount.
I just see it as an accounting trick, it is pay that isn't part of your salary so not taken into account if you were made redundant etc. And it replaces matched contributions for pensions.
Crikey! There’s some postings there that reinforce some of my prejudice around STW… I wish It’d not seen it, off for a lie down!
Free tea and coffee (instant).
+1, we have to chip in to buy the milk tho
C2W (£5000 cap, I think? Way more than I'd spend), secure, underground bike parking (nice in a city centre 🙂 ), plenty of showers, big changing room with decent lockers, breakfast laid on (cereals, muesli, toast, bagels, coconut bircher FTW), fruit and biscuits on every floor every daygood tea and coffee, subsidised health insurance, subsidised gym membership, can buy 5 days holiday, an extra day over Christmas, salary sacrifice EV scheme, season ticket loan, 24/7/365 confidential support service, decent bonus, had a rise every year I've been here. I have a great manager who's really flexible (which cuts both ways, I'd like to add 🙂 ) and although I can't use the underground city centre car park during office hours, I CAN use it at evenings and on weekends, which has been unexpectedly fantastic! 🙂
Local Gov here.
Probably the best perk is the WFH on a 2 in office / 3 at home basis. It means, especially at this time of year, I have the opportunity to get outside an run/ride on my lunch or early finish.
Also get flexi time and 3 flexi days / 4 weeks + 31 days of AL.
I also have access to the NHS Fleet Solutions car scheme so it means I can drive a nicer car than I usually would go for, for the same price as buying 'normally'.
In addition we have C2W (which I don't do), and a similar scheme for electronics.
Discount at the local airport for car parking.
Public Transport Season ticket loan.
Ability to buy holiday
Really good pension scheme with continuous service if we move to another Local Authority.
Finally, I think another great perk is working for a Local Authority itself. Very unlikely to go bust, and even if they do, a lot of the jobs likely to be retained. I've also not known anyone be sacked, despite some very loose practices/lack of work. I've concluded that it must be nigh on impossible to be sacked from a Local Authority.
How does the buying holiday days thing work, is it just a case of giving up the salary you would have gotten for those days?
Ours comes off as salary sacrifice, across 12 months. I've been doing it so long I don't miss the money as I've never really had it.
I forgot to say we have share options, but I'm not sure they are a perk as such because I think they statistically more likely to come to nothing.
I’ve been able to pay into saveshare for many years. £250 pretax a month spread over 5 yearly schemes, maturity each year. My company share price bounces around near the bottom so often just get the cash back but just occasionally, the share price rises at the right time and we get a mini windfall.
Unfortunately the scheme got pulled 5 years ago. Looking into it, it turns out it’s a way of raising cash from your employees, it can be a cheap way of getting a cash injection but turns into an expensive method if the share price rises. I suspect they want to insulate themselves from a costly payout.
But as a result, most employees are no longer shareholders in the business. Which of course means they are less engaged with how it performs.
any of you guys (apart from anagarlis) hiring engineers in the south east?
£50 per person per quarter to spend on a team night/lunch/activity, can be spent quarterly or saved up through the year for a bigger event.
loads of competitions to win additional budget for the above, prizes range from £250-£10,000 (for an inter office location prize)
company incentive trips where places can be won. Every half year it tends to be a long weekend somewhere nice in Europe, full year is the holiday of a lifetime, currently there is a group in Nepal, and have just been for a look at Everest. Other destinations have included matchu pichu, the Galapagos and Antarctica.
loads of fully funded nights out/parties/lunches thought the year, along with Michelin star meals for those that have gone the extra mile.
Supplier incentives, I went, all expenses, paid to the British GP last year
employee of the quarter in each dept gets to pick from a deck of cards laid out in a grid on the floor, 2-10 gets £100, jack - £500, queen - £1,000, king - £1,500, Ace £2,000, joker - £15,000. I know a few people who have had jokers.
Beer fridge access on a Friday afternoon
Free breakfast
Free onsite gym
free massage once a month
Serve 15 years? Lump sum of £15k, then again every 5 years thereafter.
full private medical/dental cover
Annual bonus
share purchase scheme
c2w up to £3k
Loads of discounts on holidays/vouchers etc
Extra day off for every year worked, extra day at Xmas, day off for birthday
electric car salary sacrifice
This is all very much calmed down since the company went public 10 years ago. Founder of the company used to come in with pockets full of 50’s and hand them out randomly when the mood took. Once accidentally set fire to a T-shirt cannon with £15k in it… he also did random acts of kindness, including putting employees kids though private school, paying off mortgages etc. He’s one of those ‘evil’ billionaires you keep reading about (though he is in the top 30 tax payers in the country, so may not be all bad, despite having retired a few years ago)
Shit pension though.
Just remembered, we got a new perk last year, not that all of us can make use of it. Blokes get family leave, 18 weeks full pay and optional 8 weeks half pay for a new baby.
Would be nice if I could take a paid sabbatical instead, approaching 25 years and I think I’m just due a card certificate saying thanks!
My wife used to get a free breakfast, I can’t remember if it was a perk for getting in before getting in early, or for cycling in.
I work for the RSC and we get 1 free ticket and one for a tenner for every theatre show.
I've been going to the theatre a lot and it's brilliant. Not always so enameled with the Shakespeare stuff but there's lots of other stuff too. 😊👍
HE - but private HE so slightly different. Healthcare scheme, rewards site like others where you buy through the website and it knocks a certain percentage off the total. However, above all else I get to work from home every single day and if I ever do have to go to the office I get paid all the way from Manchester to Coventry and only have to travel in work hours. Everybody I work with also understands and seems to appreciate me so I dont need to have a work filter/persona. I'd like to be able to buy more holidays if I could have any perk, I do have a flexible arrangement in place where I get every other Friday off for a salary difference but I'd rather have this in the form of days bookable whenever I want them for the same sacrifice.
I get very little, certainly in comparison to what the job used to offer (I've seen an old offer that was left on the server - bonus, healthcare, Pension cont., 5x salary Life Ins., 2 days holiday per 2 years and a few more) Now I get 3x salary Life Ins, some pension contribution and the option to buy up to a week of extra holiday.
Enshitification of the job market.
I've seen job adds with free onsite parking as a "perk" FFS!
Nothing really, though I do get to ride abroad regularly and get paid for it.
pick from a deck of cards laid out in a grid on the floor
Is this a gambling company by any chance?
Purchase Of Annual Leave is great, especially if your employer only offers close to the UK law minimum of 5.6 weeks less any Bank Holidays. At Royal Mail, you could boost leave to 6 weeks plus Bank Holidays (basic is 4.5 weeks plus BHs), but since I left some look to lose this benefit because of a secret formula being used and how close the postie wage has dropped towards minimum wage!
Separate sex shower and changing rooms are great, especially for the likes of bike commuters.
Day off on birthday, regardless of time of year is nice, couldn't even book mine off as annual leave as postie as leave banned ~4 weeks approaching Xmas.
Condensed full-time hours to do a 4-day week?
Extended lunch break every now and again where you make up time?
Early finish on Friday by working bit longer Mon-Thurs (or equivalent system for non-traditional working days)?
I've seen job adds with free onsite parking as a "perk" FFS!
It's £3 a day here...
Indoor cycle parking, showers, drying room, indoor dog toilet for service dogs.
If you don"t cycle or have a service dog, it's pretty shit.
Well I think the sex shower wins the perks...
Well I think the sex shower wins the perks...
Exactly what I was thinking. A younger me would have been applying already!
I've seen job adds with free onsite parking as a "perk" FFS!
Strangely there's never any equivalent to those who have to get the bus or train is there?!
It's not an equal perk to all employees if some are getting the benefit of free parking but some have to get public transport or they choose not to drive for other reasons.
It's not an equal perk to all employees if some are getting the benefit of free parking but some have to get public transport or they choose not to drive for other reasons.
Exactly what I was thinking with the paternity leave mentioned above. It's fantastic that a new dad gets comparable bonuses to a new mum, that's long overdue. But where's my free holiday?
How well is that policed, I wonder. It wouldn't be rocket surgery to lie about.
Well I think the sex shower wins the perks...
Only available to members of the separate sex though
Exactly what I was thinking with the paternity leave mentioned above. It's fantastic that a new dad gets comparable bonuses to a new mum, that's long overdue. But where's my free holiday?
I agree - free guide dogs for everyone. The blind have had it too easy for too long.
But where's my free holiday?
You do sometimes have to grit your teeth and smile. I'm friends with a colleague currently off on a year's maternity leave. Social media never tells the full story but jeez she's making the most of it - currently on a 3 month family vanlife road trip getting to know each other in about the bazillionth (probably 6th) country. Fair play.......he says whilst covering a significant chunk of her lessons and doing my admin in the evenings because my non contact periods are slightly busier than normal. Social media says you are spending your evening having lovely family meal in the Alps before going skiing tomorrow - that's odd, my evening was spent online doing parents evening for your class! And breath.
So yeah, equitable benefits are a win for work harmony. The lottery of the billionaire handing out bonuses on the turn of a card above would totally not work for me. Or the 'employee of the month bollox'.
I've seen job adds with free onsite parking as a "perk" FFS!
I briefly worked in a place where the employer announced they were withdrawing the free car parking. If the disgruntled employees put even 10% care into their jobs as they did in their consternation about losing their free parking, the company may not have gone out of business
Social media says you are spending your evening having lovely family meal in the Alps before going skiing tomorrow - that's odd, my evening was spent online doing parents evening for your class!
As a non parent i also get a bit jealous of all the women in the office who pop out a couple of sprogs and end up relaxing with their feet up* for 26 of the next 31 months (when you factor in the accrued leave)
But on the other hand, those sprogs are going to be paying for my state pension, so I can't grumble too much.
It is work they are going to - not a fun club.
Can’t it be both? As long as you hire self motivated people that know when they need to work and when it’s appropriate to let their hair down, it makes for a much more productive workforce
One place had an annual "learning allowance" of a couple of hundred quid to spend on training unrelated to your work. It had to be different each year so you couldn't go to Jedi every time but it was surprisingly handy, for example a friend was doing up an old house so did a course on lime plastering,
Another place was on an out of town business park but had a few reserved parking spaces in the town centre so there was no faff looking for a parking space if you needed to go into town to get something done.
One of the big management consultancies used to offer a house sitter so you could go into work instead of waiting for the plumber to fix your boiler. Not sure if that survived in the flexible working world, and TBH even back then it was probably more for the company to increase revenue than the convenience of the employee.
I've seen job adds with free onsite parking as a "perk" FFS!
Strangely there's never any equivalent to those who have to get the bus or train is there?!
It's not an equal perk to all employees if some are getting the benefit of free parking but some have to get public transport or they choose not to drive for other reasons.
It is an equal perk, your just choosing not to take advantage it. It’s like saying that companies shouldn’t offer the cycle to work scheme because some employees will choose not to take advantage of it.
Personally if there is no free parking at the office and I’m expected to be there then I will go and work for someone else. I’m not wasting taxed salary to park to help my employer make more money. Its bad enough that I have to buy the fuel for the 2 days a week I have to be there.
Special one at ours is the staff canteen. Canteen manager is a wizard, so for a pretty paltry budget we get free hot and cold drinks, breakfast choices oof cereals plus porridge, beans on toast plus occasional full fry up. Then lunch is full salad bar, soup option and a different hot meal every day. Highlight this week was steak, dauphinoise potatoes and broccoli with diane sauce. Then fresh cake in the afternoon.
Then there's the special stuff to keep us healthy, like flu shots which taste awful but do the job. This week she was practicing making throat lozenges 🙂 It's genuinely incredible.
Nothing, not even cycle to work scheme or even a tea bag
Would the tea bag come before or after the sex shower?
And there was me thinking I was the only one who gets annoyed by maternity leave. I used to work with a woman who had four children while working at the same company and here I am choosing not to be a mother and I don’t see any of that benefit. Even just one extra day off a year in recognition would do it for me!
Would the tea bag come before or after the sex shower?
During.
It’s getting worse! Can’t you all just go to work and be happy you get paid for it like most working people? Sounds like most of you work in the warmth and dry with very little risk to your health except scalding your lip on a cappuccino yet get all these extra “perks”!
When a poor civil servant there were few if any perks but Mrs kilo scored high. One of the biggest was when they did an overseas trip for all employees and partners, as flight times were problematic they just chartered an airliner for the trip.
Self employed since age 19. 43 now and semi retired.
Zero employer benefits other than deciding for whom I work.
Sounds like most of you have it right cushy..... Pension contributions, C2W, paid holidays and sick days.... How the other half live.
Sounds like most of you have it right cushy..... Pension contributions, C2W, paid holidays and sick days.... How the other half live.
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43 now and semi retired.
Indeed....how the other half live!