Outside the box Employee Benefits?
Greetings! What are some outside the box benefits you offer employees? As a small business, insurance is cost prohibitive as is offering PTO. What are some low-cost benefits your employees appreci...
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Good question. Generous mileage reimbursement, careful tallying of tips and putting the tip function in front of clients point of sale, employee birthdays celebrated, drinks and snacks in office which evolved into breakfast foods. Gift cards for car washes. Coffee gift cards. Candy dish or other goodies in office. Turkeys or grocery gift cards for Thanksgiving, small bonus at Christmas with card and gift. Take manager to lunch/brunch. Flexible days off, no evening/weekends/holidays or if we do work them is is voluntary, and paid at over time pay. Health care coverage is still out of our reach but would be the biggest thing.
We also **bleep** off steam by sharing a cocktail often on Fridays!
Ooo, what a nice idea! I love a good cocktail 🍹
(also, it looks like the word 'blow' was one of our moderated words! I took off the filter so it shouldn't be filtered in the future 👍)After a week of hard work, I'm sure that's much appreciated!!!
We have Beer Wednesdays! We're across the street from a woman-owned restaurant / micro brewery and she's freaking fabulous. They have $7 growler fills on Weds so we try and have a cold growler of craft beer available when they get back to the shop. Quarterly, we try and treat everyone out and get together. It's great seeing everyone all gussied up and gabbin'. We try to cover their first couple cocktails / apps when we go out. We have barbequed for them, hosted a craft night, bonfire party, etc.
These a great benefits! Thank you for sharing. We do quite a few of these as well, aside from the turkey and grocery cards at Thanksgiving. That is a great idea!!! How many employees do you have and how long have you been in business?
Our crew is also off on evenings, weekends, and holidays - and also voluntary if we do have extra work available. We do not pay OT pay for weekend work but that's a great perk!!! Health coverage is sadly too far out of our reach as well.
At some point in the not so distant future, we'd like to partner with a child care provider or provide in-house childcare to remove that barrier for working parents with young children. We wouldn't cover the whole cost but at least help offset it. Having childcare close to work would help (we believe) with overall attendance and job satisfaction, in addition to helping make our people's lives a bit easier. It's a dream of ours, as a women-owned business. Goals, amirite?
