Hello,

my recommendation would be to ask for your employees what would bring the biggest value for them.

My experience:

We wanted to review our benefits, and thought what would be great for our people.

In the end, we decided to ask our people, and what was an eye-opening moment was that it was  different from what we thought and what they wanted.

For example – we thought that additional health insurance is necessary, but it was rated in the last place.

So what we did example:

– We gave people 2k per person for a year, they can use for what they want – learning, courses, conferences, additional “fancy” tech stuff, health insurance, parking, sport etc. This works perfectly!

And we focused on some areas we want to encourage:

– We want to exelerate Growth (personal professional in the organisation), that’s we we encoure to you 50% of a total sum mentioned above for learning things. The person decides where to spend them but just check with direct manager. We have learning time, every second Friday, dedicated for learning (every person and team decide how to spend them)

– Meaningful relationships (we have workation budget, team building budget,) to build the relationship.

– Work life balance – we bought an emotional support app, and encourage people to take consultations with psychologists, etc covered by the company, also extra days off with a clear message.

So, to sum up everything, I would encourage you to ask your people what would be the most beneficial for them. 🙂

Hi Kate,

We’re a large Welsh Social Landlord looking after 10000 properties in South Wales with circa 400 staff. A lot of our benefits have devolved from when we were the council, and some of our benefits are therefore generous. All staff get 30 days holiday plus bank holidays (all pro rata of course!) You qualify for Health Shield Cash Back plan after 6 months, and our pension scheme is a local government defined scheme. Being in the communities, periodically staff can take time to help local projects i.e. timebanking etc.

I totally agree about asking people what they want, especially as we move to more flexible/permanent hybrid ways of working. We have two very different staff/role groups – those that are front facing and those ‘office based’ roles. They want very different things in terms of benefits.