Workplace Incentives
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- bklyndroobeki0
flex schedule: under the premise of as long as you get your work done.
- bulletfactory0
equity.
- omg0
The concept of the "break room" has been redefined in many ways to create that meaningful benefit to the employee so they could step out of the work zone without stepping out of the office. Increasing productivity, pleasantness, appreciation and driving the culture of the company.
- Fuzziest0
Allow 10 - 20% of their time in the week to work on whatever they want. Personal project, entrepreneurial idea, sofa fort, whatever. Chances are they are already spending that percentage of the work week doing it anyways, but if you celebrate the successes of it, that time will be more fruitful for them and for the company.
- jtb260
I met some folks from Zurb and they have some pretty interesting benefits. The thing is their kind of a well paying sweatshop. Which, I think if you know that going in is fine. Seems like they work people there pretty hard. Their fringe benefits are partially about keeping up with the Jones' (Google/Facebook/Apple), but also partially about making it easier for people to live while meeting the demands of the job.
Dry Cleaning: They expect people to be able to dress nicely for clients.
House Cleaning: Late hours so it's nice to have a clean place to go home to.
Catered Lunches: Working on tight deadlines makes it hard to go out and have a good lunch, so they bring the good food to you.
I always appreciated having a way to unwind. So encouraging gaming nights, or ping pong tourney's or whatever was just a good way to build camaraderie.
- duckseason0
http://www.fastcompany.com/30429…
Could probably lift some ideas from these companies.
- formed0
Everything is time or money. If you offered someone the money for a membership or a membership, which do you think they'd pick?
If you are large enough that you can leverage a deal (like companies could do with health care), then there's advantages on both sides, but if not, it's money coming from one place and going to another.
Flexible hours would be seem to be big, chance to work from home, etc.
All that said, there's data out there supporting incentives/gifts, even as trivial as Starbucks gift cards. I guess there is something to the "it's the thought that counts"
- vaxorcist0
a place where management is really design-oriented, and has an "on your side" attitude.... rather than a sales-driven workplace, where there is an "anything the client asks for, we bend over backwards immediately" mindset.
- omg0
- sephil-1
Where I work we have free fruits and croissants/donuts on Monday.
- I reckon you probably work unpaid late nights and weekends on a regular basis. Do your free Monday thingies make up for that?Continuity
- bogue0
Thanks everyone... this thread re-inforces that we're already doing alot of things right... it also re-inforces that you can't buy little gimmicks without them appearing as exactly that : little gimmicks. Nice work shiny new QBN!
- dbloc0
I just got a standup/sitdown desk