It’s certainly no secret that perks and benefits are a major attraction for discerning job seekers. Top talent knows the sky is the limit as far as the modern menu of potential extras that come along with monetary compensation, and their job search can also involve window shopping for the best spread of perks and benefits that a company might offer. Since the 2020 outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, some benefits have gained even more importance, and many new perks have been created to keep cultural spirit alive via Zoom meetings of remote workers. These 11 companies all have benefits they’re proud of offering to their employees. They range from serious lifelines like mental health benefits to and educational assistance to that old, reliable pioneering perk of office life – the well-stocked fridge.
Briefly describe the most-loved benefit Workfront offers its employees today.
Company-wide recharge days. Once a month, on top of our unlimited paid time off and paid holidays, we give employees another day off to unplug their devices, recharge, and rest.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
While we continue to be so appreciative of our employees’ work, we recognize that the hours/days spent communicating on Zoom, Slack, email, and daily life demands can cause people to feel overly busy and taxed. To ensure our employees continue to get the physical and mental relief they need, we have decided to hold company-wide recharge days allowing us to unplug our devices, recharge, and rest.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Office Stipend: To better enable our employees to do their best work, we gave employees a one-time office stipend. This is intended to cover the costs associated with setting up the proper infrastructure and equipment at home to work productively and comfortably.
Mental Health Webinars: In partnership with our EAP, we host webinars revolving around Mental health during the global pandemic.
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Briefly describe the most-loved benefit KeepTruckin offers its employees.
We recently expanded our mental health benefits through a partnership with Modern Health. In addition to offering free one-on-one therapy sessions to all of our employees and their dependents, they offer therapist-led circles like US Election Support Series and webinars like “How to Worry Effectively”. We’re also working with Modern Health to provide psychological safety training for all managers.
Why is this a benefit you chose to give to your employees?
We’ve always held the belief that mental well-being is so important to an employee’s overall health. This year, we doubled down on our commitment to mental well-being.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
As we look forward to 2021, we’re continuing to evolve our perks and benefits for an increasingly remote workforce. We’re providing snacks and food options directly to employee’s homes, hosting virtual happy hours (complete with at-home drink delivery), and expanding our global Telehealth coverage through partnerships with Galileo and Augmentcare.
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Briefly describe the most unique benefit City National Bank of Florida offers its employees today?
Family Fund Benefit: The Family Fund program provides our employees access to up to $10,000 in reimbursement for fertility treatment expenses, not covered through insurance, or adoption process-related expenses.
Why is this a benefit you chose to give to your employees?
Our employees and their families are very important to us. With these benefits, we ensure we support our CNB families, contribute to their needs, and share with them, their special moments.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Our benefits have not been diminished in the current business climate.
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Briefly describe the most-loved/unique benefit Cornerstone offers its employees today?
At our core, Cornerstone is a learning company – both in how we serve our customers through our people development solutions and how we enable our own people to become life-long learners. In addition to an abundance of online learning content and personalized career paths, Cornerstone offers its people a myriad of learning opportunities – from our regular peer-to-peer Development Days and now daily Development Hours to change management workshops, gig work programs, and mentorship programs – that foster collaboration across the organization and promote skill development.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
While there are several individuals within the company whose core responsibilities are learning and development, we know how important it is to provide as many opportunities for our employees to be able to take learning into their own hands. The many programs we offer our people enable this autonomy and encourage cross-functional collaboration. We know that a culture of learning creates an engaged workforce, closes skills gaps, and paves the way for individuals to accomplish their career goals.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Leveraging Cornerstone’s own online learning technology contributed to a smoother transition to the 100% remote model we are in right now as individuals can continue taking online courses from home. We have had to shift our in-person trainings and workshops to a virtual format, which actually allows our entire global workforce to participate, and we have made even greater use of our online communities and employee resource groups to engage employees in daily learning activities. Another way Cornerstone has evolved this benefit in the current climate is by introducing Always Learning@Home. We are acutely aware that education is currently unpredictable and meeting the academic needs of students learning from home is challenging. So in partnership with our client, Sylvan Learning, we’re piloting a program that provides virtual one-on-one academic tutoring for students in grades K-12, with certified tutors focused on teaching English and Math.
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Briefly describe the most-appreciated benefit Axios offers its employees today?
When the pandemic hit, we converted our normal monthly commuter stipend to a $100/month work-from-home stipend. Employees can use that money on anything that makes their lives working from home more enjoyable. We also granted 1 Mental Health Day per month to all Axions.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
Our employees’ mental health and wellbeing during a time of global crisis was our collective leadership team’s top priority, so we invested time and money to ensure our team members could stay as well as possible and take good care of themselves.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Prior to making any major changes, we began capturing data via bi-weekly pulse surveys to understand from individual team members how they were doing, if they felt support, and if they were able to find time and ways to be productive. Based on that feedback, we doubled down on benefits that were valued and working well and added on additional support benefits to take care of our people.
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Briefly describe the most-loved/unique benefit Chipotle offers employees today?
Chipotle’s debt-free degrees program allows every eligible employee to receive a free business or technology degree at participating universities with no upfront tuition costs. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and has helped to drive attraction, retention, and promotion within the organization.
Why is this a benefit you chose to give to your employees?
Our Cultivate Education program offers Chipotle employees multiple choices to assist in their educational goals. While we continue to provide traditional tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year, we are thrilled to have a robust debt-free degree program with one hundred percent of tuition costs covered upfront for our employees. This alleviates financial pressure for those interested in furthering their education and allows employees to thrive and pursue their passion.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
At the start of the year, we gave access to mental health, emotional and financial well-being benefits to all of our employees and their family members for free!
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Briefly describe the most-loved benefit Gympass offers employees today?
It might be cliche but our employees really do love using the Gympass platform. Our health and wellness platform includes access to thousands of fitness and wellbeing activities with a simple monthly membership. We frequently organize team sessions to try out new activities together – whether it be a Friday afternoon ‘No Shower Happy Hour’ workout or a midday meditation session.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
As a health and wellness company, it’s important for us to make sure our employees have all the resources they need to live a healthy lifestyle while working for Gympass. This is even more important now that many of our employees are working remotely and are looking for ways to stay productive. It’s also a benefit that all employees can enjoy equally regardless of where they live or what their wellness goals are, which is essential for our global team.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Our focus has been on making sure our team has the resources they need to work remotely. This includes a home office subsidy to ensure they have a productive workspace as well as multiple new mental health resources to help maintain a positive mindset. These programs include access to an EAP and parenting resources in addition to Wellness Coaches, online therapy, meditation apps, and virtual activities found on the Gympass platform.
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Briefly describe the most-loved/unique benefit your company offers your employees today?
Our employees love having a well-stocked fridge and breakroom with a flowing freestyle coke machine. We also have catered in food or local food trucks every day for lunch.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
It promotes great culture and happiness. Our employees feel cared for and valued, plus, who doesn’t love free food every single day?
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
We have tried to make it fun for our employees by sending them surprises in the mail such as chocolate-covered berries, Minky Blankets, Summer party boxes, cookies, amazon gift cards, etc.
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Briefly describe the most-loved/unique benefit Drift offers its employees today?
A company-wide favorite perk at Drift is our sabbatical. Most companies that offer a sabbatical offer it after five years, but at Drift, we offer this perk after three-years. Every employee is eligible for a one-month sabbatical when they hit their three-year mark, and every three years after that!
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
Our sabbatical offers employees the chance to relax and reset a little bit after all their hard work. People use this time to travel, work on a passion project, or to rejuvenate and spend time with friends and family. We have seen people spend a month motorcycling around Vietnam, move to Cape Cod, learn the sport of horseback riding, and take an extended honeymoon across Australia and New Zealand.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
Our employees’ mental health has been top of mind throughout the pandemic, given that it is such a stressful time for everyone. To support employees throughout this, our CEO spontaneously gave the entire company four extra days off (a few summer Friday’s and extra days tacked on to holiday weekends), we provide guided yoga and meditation breaks during the workday, we had two psychologists attend our Friends & Family day event to talk to us about burnout, and we have provided a subscription to the Headspace meditation for all employees free of charge.
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Briefly describe the most-loved benefit Phaidon International offers its employees today?
Our most loved benefits are our many Company Social Outings and Events – we offer Lunch Clubs at Michelin starred restaurants, vacations in exotic locations such as Cancun and Vegas, and regular social events from Sports Days to Escape Rooms. Although it has been a challenge to recreate this during recent times, we have still been able to keep this element of our culture alive through surprise deliveries and virtual events!
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
We provide regular Company and Social Events in order to reward our employees for their hard work and recognize that they often go above and beyond within their roles. We also regularly receive feedback that our culture and friendships made between colleagues is a key selling point, these events help to foster this culture, build and strengthen internal relationships and allow our employees to let off some steam!
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
As mentioned above, we have worked hard to ensure that we are able to recreate some of the social events that we held previously – great examples of this are virtual escape rooms and virtual panel events, and Q&As with leadership. We have also strengthened our Well-being offering and communications to ensure our employees are engaged and supported during this time.
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Briefly describe the most-loved benefit RingCentral offers its employees today?
There are a lot of things our employees like. The match for our 401(k) is always popular and next year we are expanding it to 6%. We are very supportive of women and working mothers, so in addition to what we already have in place, we will be expanding our benefits to include a newborn welcome gift box shipped to new parents and Milk Stork, a breast milk travel solution for working moms.
Why are these perks and benefits you chose to give to your employees?
The 401 (k) matching program is something RingCentral has always believed in as an important way to support the long-term goals of our employees. The programs in support of working mothers is part of our overall goal to provide as inclusive a workplace as possible. We want everyone who works at RingCentral to bring their whole selves to work everyday!
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
We are paying more attention to the psychological and emotional health of our employees. The pandemic and remote working are stressful and we are really mindful of that in everything we do. One perk we have put in place is that every employee gets a day off, every quarter, while we are in remote working mode. It gives us all a chance to recharge and connect with family and friends.
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Briefly describe the most-loved benefit Catalyst offers its employees today?
While we have a wide range of amazing benefits and unlimited PTO at Catalyst, we’re proud to give our employees a mandatory mental health day once per month. This is one day each month where our entire company collectively closes our laptops and takes a break. And of course, we communicate this to our customers well in advance.
Why is this a perk you chose to give to your employees?
We believe the health of our company starts with a happy and healthy team. In this unprecedented time, we know it can be an easy distraction to get lost in our work. On top of that, people are less likely to be taking a vacation right now. This is a way to break that mold and ensure the Catalyst team maintains a healthy work/life balance while encouraging them to keep it top of mind.
What have you done to evolve your perks & benefits program in the current shifting business climate?
In this era of COVID-19, people teams need to adapt their strategy just like customer success or marketing or sales teams. Mandatory mental health days are just one way we’re doing that at Catalyst. And we think it’s powerful that the whole company unplugs together. But we’ve also rolled out a fitness benefit, a mental health benefit, and, among other things, we do a monthly event to get our team together virtually. These monthly virtual events have centered around things like trivia, cooking, online escape rooms, and magicians!