In an increasingly competitive marketplace for talent, standard benefits are no longer effective recruiting tools. Here are six of the top creative employee benefits ideas that showcase employers thinking outside the box.
1. Offer travel opportunities to your employees
Encouraging employees to take time out to experience other cultures is an imaginative way to spark personal development. International travel is often the best way to experience new places and people, helping businesses attract adventurous thinkers.
Create a buzz with a lottery draw for all staff, with real cash prizes. One creative idea is to bring these into your in-house TV production or internal communications to get staff excited. Consider offering a big-money prize, and then multiple runners-up so more employees get chances to win.
It’s one of the more expensive creative employee benefits, but hands-down can be the best-loved by staff. If you have less budget to spend, you could try doing this quarterly or annually instead, or offering fewer top prizes.
Duvet days are an innovative way to tackle staff absence. The concept is simple - each employee is given license to take a day or a morning off at last minute notice. If a member of staff is feeling slightly ill or just doesn’t feel up to a hard day’s work, they can call in at very short notice before their shift and ask to take a duvet day.
With millions of bogus “sick days” taken each year, duvet days can help prevent burnout with flexible working and save businesses money.
Taking the time to say thank you to your colleagues is the easiest form of employee recognition, and is appreciated by people on all levels. One our of favorite ways to say "well done" is through our e-cards, part of our recognition platform.
Employee recognition is best approached creatively. While bonuses and other monetary recognition is also important, once money is spent, it is quickly forgotten. Creating a culture of gratitude around the frequency of saying thank you is the best way to generate long-lasting positivity, and can be easily done with online e-cards or other forms of recognition.
Employee turnover and employee motivation both have an immense impact on revenues, on company culture and on talent competition in the marketplace. Unique staff benefits like these can help enhance your employee value proposition and help your business stand out from the crowd.
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