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Are Job Perks Coming into Vogue Again?
Pharmboy asks: "The Register is reporting on a company that was awarded 'Best Small Company to Work for in America' by the Detroit Free Press, in part, for providing Free beer to their employees. They offer free breakfast, lunch AND dinner, gym and snacks. This sounds similar to the late 90s, where companies were offering extreme benefits to attract extreme talent, before the bubble burst and most workers were just glad to have a job. As the job market gains strength, what are companies willing to do in order to attract the best talent? Are we about to enter another era where employers are willing to make work fun again, in order to attract and keep talent? Will this have any effect on other employers, forcing them to again offer benefits to keep pace and talent? How important are these kinds of perks to the average employee anyway? What kind of perks would you have to have to switch to a job that pay the same?"
My only job perk is Vogue!
Free beer... They offer free breakfast, lunch AND dinner... and snacks.
Once you say "free beer", saying "breakfast", "lunch", etc. are redundant.
"Beer" pretty well covers everything.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.
free beer all day, personal hammock, and massages every hour....cant beat bein' a kobe cow....
HR dude(tte) #1 "Want kind of employess do we want to attract?"
HR dude(tte) #2 "How about the kind who want free beer?"
HR dude(tte) #1 "Yeah! Let's offer a perk that would only attract people who drink a lot!"
by asking for them to arrange for Halle Berry to drop by my place on a regular basis. Obviously in the spirit of negotiation I bring along a list of 200 fit actresses and models I will accept as a substitute if Halle is not available.
It must be said I am not having the greatest of success with this approach at the moment. I guess I have to hope either Catwoman bombs or the market picks up a tad more and in the meantime be happy if they offer me free parking.
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I guess a good perk would be for the company to buy my plane ticket to India when they outsource my job there.
Language classes would be good too.
There's only one thing I'm allergic to... Sudden Death. (Danger Mouse)
Unlimited free Diet Coke and Coffee.
I kinda figured that they were referring to a "free microbrews on a Friday afternoon policy" (a la Microsoft) not a "lets keep the fridge stocked with schlitz policy" (a la IBM).
;-)
Just kidding about IBM...
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
Being self employeed I give my self my own perks. So for the long hours, sleepless night I get a meal out at the local pub on a Friday. God I'm a cheapskate
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Cheap UK and US VPS
People simply aren't machines... they require more than just food, drink, and sleep. Ok, sex then. Food, drink, sex, then sleep. Yep, that's pretty much it.
My dog is in my cubicle with me today.
Unfortunately, it comes with a cost: She has to watch "Animal Planet," as output by one of the digital set top boxes we are testing, and has been trained to whine whenever she sees macroblocking or other artifacts.
Stefan
He punched me in the back of the head and told me to get back to work.
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Is it "free as in beer" or "free as in speech"? :)
Go hug some trees.
MY FSCKING JOB
Dude! Your whole job is to FSCK disks? Wow, either you've got a few thousand servers your work with (google, perhaps? I can see a FSCK engineer working their cluster...) or really bad hardware/bad setup/bad administrators.
Quite frankly, I don't know if that would be a stressful job or not...
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These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Oh yeah, perks are coming back into fashion alright! Look at the stunning package I get:
Free ADSL!(I work at an ISP)
Computer upgrades every 5 years! (for my workstation, not at home)
Air conditioning! (We just replaced the old clunker at work)
And, um, an occasional day where the tech support calls aren't so frequent and I can actually get real work done! W00t!
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
So, I seriously doubt that we are going to get anything at all like the late 90s going on for technical workers.
Stop It! You're scaring DeVry.
Sorry about the OT random reply, but look at your obfuscated email:
:-)
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gene@teaCOFFEEmtri.com minus caffeine
you have tea and coffee in there... which caffeine do I remove
What were the odds that your address would get split there and that the de-obfuscating recipe would call for the removal of it
Sorry, I just found that amusing.
My other car is first.