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 appreciate?
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We hand out gift cards to Amazon when a crew has done an over the top job or came under budget on a job. We will sometimes buy the crew lunch. During hot mid western summers we will deliver popsicles or ice cream to the crews on their job sites.
Out of the box ideas could be something like buying groceries or gas as a "bonus". It will impact their lives to save that tank of gas, or that trip to the grocery store, is a write off, and will show appreciation for your employees
I absolutely love this! Thank you for the ideas. I also often forget that these kinds of gifts/benefits are a write off. Thank you for the reminder!
Anytime the value exceeds the cost. For many, doing something that makes the spouse, kids or family happy, is a good bet. Buying a plane ticket back home so they can be with their family during the holidays, picking up the tab on a swimming class membership for the kiddos, giving the employee a spa certificate to give to his wife or sports tickets to give to the husband... etc, etc.
Love those ideas! Thank you for sharing.
Hey JessieClean, it's great that you're looking out for out-of-the-box ideas for employee benefits!
What benefits do you currently offer your employees right now?Hi Julie!
We are currently seeking local experts to offer Lunch & Learn opportunities for our employees in the following areas:
- Financial Fitness & Credit Repair
- Health & Wellness
- Mental Health
- Self Defense
We try and get together quarterly to decompress and just have fun together. We have 13 employees and our work family is very close. It's nice to get together and let loose. In the past, we've treated our employees to breakfast, had craft nights, celebrated divorces/engagements/baby showers etc, and taken our crew out for drinks and bowling.
