Keeping your employees happy is an essential role in the world of human resources management. Recruiting and training new employees is costly for your company, so it’s well worth a little effort to ensure that your current employees are willing to stick around for the long haul.
A survey from Accountemps asked CFOs from more than 1,400 companies with 20 or more employees about what perks that planned to offer in 2011 to attract and retain employees. Here are a few ideas based on their responses, which you may want to consider offering your own employees:
- Subsidized training
- Telecommuting or flextime
- Matching gifts
- A mentorship program
- Onsite perks, such as childcare, cafeteria, coffee shop, or gym
- Subsidized parking or bus fare
- Housing or relocation assistance
- Subsidized gym memberships
Particularly if your company is still struggling from the recession, creating a more comfortable workplace will help build employee loyalty when big raises are out of reach.
What perks have been popular in your workplace? Share your strategies in the comments. All valid comments will be entered to win a $25 Starbucks card on June 1st! Check back to find out if you’re a winner!
For more ways to retain employees, talk with Terri Gresham about Halogen Employee Performance and Talent Management Software.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:09 am
We have a Mocha machine, that saves $5 to $7 dollars a day for someone that is a regular Latte/Mocha drinker. I’d call that a pretty good perk!
May 27th, 2011 at 10:42 am
We offer company reduced prices for Raging waters theme park, reduced prices for Gymn memberships, buiding lunches every month in each of our four buildings, a limited amount of Shark’s tickets free, and a variety of different things including a mocha machine. I would call that an even better perk.
May 27th, 2011 at 10:54 am
We have a few perks in our company. My favorite is our monthly lunches. Each month lunch is provided for each building (we have four)and all employee’s sit down together and enjoy a warm lunch.
June 2nd, 2011 at 6:25 pm
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June 2nd, 2011 at 6:34 pm
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