Companies add perks and benefits to keep employees happy

From daycare for parents to therapy subscriptions, companies are adding new benefits and perks to keep their employees happy. NBC’s Vicky Nguyen breaks down what to look out for — and how to ask if they are not currently provided at your workplace.

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[carllelendt]

I think done properly, for the long term, this could be a huge help to sufficient staffing shortage. And it's not like this has never been done before. So there are, historically speaking, some examples. Here in Calif, one can visit the Samoa Cookhouse, it's a restaurant with a museum, depicting amenities provided to millworkers. Mills of the more distant past were not the only employers doing so. To this day, I still consider the early/mid 20th century railroad employee and family travel perks amazing. -Free travel (and some basic accommodations, meals) for RR employees and families. -The RR's worked together to provide some attractive perks, benefits to employees. Great Northern honored Southern Pacific, and I think visa versa, for employee travel. I knew a former SP baggage handler, mid-20th century, that, with his family, almost yearly visited family in Minnesota free of railroad travel charge. I grew up in a small mill town, mid-20th century. Some of us kids swam, fished for free in a retired mill pond. So there was a "benefit" or "perk" for kids living close to the old mill. That's also, in my opinion, a good resource for perk consideration, as a jumping-off-point for use in thinking about providing perks, etc.. And I think many have probably heard the story about how Henry Kaiser hired doctors/med. staff and called that the co. health care benefit which, at the time, was a big hit with employees. So there's lots of history to begin one's thinking with., some interesting models that existed then.

[Jad]

I yet have to find a Fortune 500 actually living this. Name one

[foxhound]

but the problem is the customer and clients some are need of man power or urgent project. but a customer wants and the company complies.