What Unique Benefit Does Your Emploer Provide

[Anonymous]

My old company was awesome. When you hit a milestone anniversary (5, 10 years) instead of some crappy gift from a catalog you got an extra week of PTO for that year, plus $1000 towards the charity of your choice. They also matched charitable donations.

They also gave you a free whole-body scan/checkup thing once every 5 years (not usually covered by insurance.) Company was based in California, which may explain it.

[Anonymous]

A neverending stream of comments from old dudes on how I should style my hair and what outfits I should wear to flatter my figure. Also, providing my contact information to "financial advisors" that, for an obscene fee, will "analyze" my 401k for me and tell me how to optimize my investments within the confines of the minimal funds available to us in our 401k plan.

Oh wait, you said benefits we enjoyed?! Nevermind...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summer office hours. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the office closes at 3 on Fridays.

We have similar, close at 1pm. I LOVE it

[Anonymous]

I worked for a company once many years ago that would bail you out of jail as one of their benefits. Never used it, but wow... Needless to say, I didn't last long with them

[Anonymous]

My employer, unlike yours, provides us with a keyboard that has a "y" key.

[Anonymous]

The kitchen is always well supplied with organic fair trade coffee and a variety of teas. So lovely.

That is sort of the cherry on top of a lot of nice benefits we have--including paid parental leave which I am enjoying right now.

[Anonymous]

Up to $500 credit for wellness (i.e. weight loss membership at Weight Watchers or similar, or gym membership or home fitness equipment, etc).

[Anonymous]

matching gifts, two paid days off for volunteer work, zumba classes, weightwatchers, sporadically: fruit in the morning

[Anonymous]

Prior to a merger, my company gave bonus weeks of vacation at major milestone anniversaries (it was the kind of companies with a lot of long-term employees), high value gifts at the another year mark in addition to the bonus week.

At (I think) 25, the CEO would pick you up at home in a limo and present you with a bouquet of roses and everyone would meet you outside of the building and thank you for your service. We also used to have a full day that everyone in the company would take to volunteer every year and we'd go to different sites as a group. Remote employees would use the day for the same. And we had a kind of nice recognition program with little plaques on our office nameplates.

It was one of the best places to work in Washington for a long time, and it really was a fantastic workplace with a lot of really old school perks, like Employee of the Month, that were real teambuilding type things. Now it's VERY big company and the vacation and sick are pretty good. One kind of corny but neat thing is that we get these pins with the company name on them to wear to client sites. At milestone years, you get a new one, with a different stone for each year of service. So at five, I think it's a ruby, and so on.

[Anonymous]

I get an executive physical through David Drew Clinic every 3 years, which costs about 4K.

Unlimited PTO

If company goals are met, we get a all expense paid vacation with a guest to somewhere amazing at a top resort, different place every year, always international.

Stuff like free parking, nice coffee, occasional breakfast, gym allowance...of course. I thought that was standard (outside of feds of course).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prior to a merger, my company gave bonus weeks of vacation at major milestone anniversaries (it was the kind of companies with a lot of long-term employees), high value gifts at the another year mark in addition to the bonus week.

At (I think) 25, the CEO would pick you up at home in a limo and present you with a bouquet of roses and everyone would meet you outside of the building and thank you for your service. We also used to have a full day that everyone in the company would take to volunteer every year and we'd go to different sites as a group. Remote employees would use the day for the same. And we had a kind of nice recognition program with little plaques on our office nameplates.

It was one of the best places to work in Washington for a long time, and it really was a fantastic workplace with a lot of really old school perks, like Employee of the Month, that were real teambuilding type things. Now it's VERY big company and the vacation and sick are pretty good. One kind of corny but neat thing is that we get these pins with the company name on them to wear to client sites. At milestone years, you get a new one, with a different stone for each year of service. So at five, I think it's a ruby, and so on.

That sounds awful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't have anything that crazy, but...10% automatic into 401k (not match), 35 hour week with 1 hour for lunch, company pays 100% of your health insurance premium (but not dependents).

Used to be a fed with a "maxi-flex" schedule where I could shift my hours around and regularly got a day off every other week. That was awesome. Too bad nothing else about the job was awesome.

Sounds similar to me--where are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer office hours. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the office closes at 3 on Fridays.

We have similar, close at 1pm. I LOVE it

I want this!!

[Anonymous]

Summer Fridays over here too! Love it

[Anonymous]

We can wear jeans on Friday, have a keurig machine, free parking (suburban office), and get a 15 percent 401k match.