Writer's Block: Perks of the Job

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Golly. Perks. That's the best topic for 8:30 in the morning on a Saturday that I've ever heard! And I could go on forever...

First, there's all the other things we'd love but that would cost companies money, so they will never do.

• How about if they pay for our insurance, rather than making us pay for most of the monthly premium - hello, we

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[theroadtoelle]

* How about increasing the matching amount they put into 401K's?
I have no idea what you're even talking about here. :)

* How about offering a "mental health day", that employees can use up to one a month of? They don't have to accrue or anything, but if you just need ONE day off, there it is, without a hit in the paycheck.
AMEN!!

* Free box lunches?
We get a fruit basket once a week, to share amongst the floor. It averages at two pieces of fruit per person per week. But lunches would be great.

* Working with company partners to provide free admittance/special events to local family/fun spots - ie "Free Day at COSI for all WonderCompany employees and their families!"
That's a great idea.

* Profit sharing??
My company does that, but we haven't made enough of a profit the last two years to trigger it.

Flex-schedules are good too - four 10 hour days, for example, instead of five 8 hour days. But even better is to make that flexible so that if I need one week of 4-10's, and two weeks of 5-8's, I can do that.
I have a sort of flexi-time. Not proper, but if I'm a few hours late, I can stay later. Or if I need to leave early, I can make it up another day. When the kids had chicken pox I even worked 6pm-10pm for a week so I was only at work when Steve could be at home with the kids...and it didn't cost me any annual leave. And wow, you get so much more work done when the office is empty!! My four hour days were probably more productive than my normal eight hour ones!

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* How about increasing the matching amount they put into 401K's?
I have no idea what you're even talking about here. :)
401K is what most companies here call a retirement fund. At most places, you can have them put between 5-10% of your paycheck into your retirement account - then the company will match that amount. So if I put $20 into retirement, the company puts in $20, and now I have $40.