Company benefits and concessions: the most unusual and the reason for offering them

According to a recent survey conducted by Glassdoor, 57% of workers undecided about whether to accept a new job take the final decision according to their assessment of company benefits. Furthermore, 80% claim to prefer benefits over a possible pay rise. For this reason, many multinationals are taking steps to improve the package they offer their employees.

This is the case, for example, of interns at Facebook, who can use the free shuttle bus and accommodation services, but also Ikea and Pinterest who are focusing above all on concessions for new parents (including benefits such as extended paid leave or counselling sessions to help with their return to work).

There are also other more unusual examples, such as Goldman Sachs, who are prepared to pay for all expenses relating to sex changes and Spotify which, as well as six months paid parental leave plus a month of flexible working hours, offers to cover the costs of egg freezing and fertility treatment.

That is not all however: if Airbnb offers its internal employees 2000 euros a year to spend on travel, Burton provides seasonal ski passes and entire days to be spent snowboarding. Not to mention Zillow, which pays the cost of night time breast milk delivery when mothers have to go on a business trip.

Other examples include Genentech, which provides dental care, a car washing service, beauticians and nursery care. Adobe, on the other hand, offers two extra weeks’ holiday to be taken at Christmas time or in the summer. Meanwhile Deloitte provides various kinds of sabbatical programs.

Last but not least in terms of importance, is the case of Twitter, which provides three meals a day, but also acupuncture sessions or courses in improvisation.  Perhaps these are not such unusual benefits, but they certainly make the employees happy, because these offers are exploited to the full by the vast majority of workers.

These are the most unusual benefits proposed by multinationals around the world: more or less unusual concessions which, as mentioned above, are often more appreciated by staff than pay rises or such like.

Translated by Joanne Beckwith