Amazing Employee Benefits That Will Keep Everyone Happy and Healthy
Happy, healthy employees are critical for your business's success. The good news is there are plenty of perks and benefits you can offer to make sure your workers stay this way. Keep reading to find out what they are.
Discounted or free recipe boxes
There are so many benefits to offering your employees recipe boxes. The first is that they will love it, as it will make their lives infinitely easier. After all, recipe boxes mean less mental work and planning of meals, less having to go to the store, and less time and effort when cooking too. All of which mean a better work/life balance.
Another benefit is that home-cooked meals using fresh and varied ingredients are tasty and much healthier for your employees and their families too, something they will love, and can help you keep your absence levels down.
Finally, the last reason to offer your employees a recipe box as a benefit or perk is that they are good for the environment too. This is because there is far less CO2 produced when creating these boxes than in a normal shop. Also, much of the packaging materials are recyclable. All of which means you can help lessen the stress about caring for the environment for those that work for you.
Medical and dental plans
Medical and dental coverage provides pretty obvious benefits to your employees as it means they can get any issues investigated and fixed, without having to worry about fronting the money or going into debt. This is something that can not only help people get back to work after being ill but also reduce the amount of stress they feel about themselves or their families getting ill in the future too.
Of course, for these benefits to work effectively, it's important that you do your best to negotiate the best coverage possible.
Complementary medicine and wellness services
In addition to traditional medical and dental care, many businesses have found that offering access to complementary treatments and wellness services can be beneficial for both workers and the companies they work for.
Regarding complementary medicine, services such as being able to see a Chinese Medicine Practitioner at a reduced or free rate can be very helpful. Especially if they offer treatments such as herbalism and acupuncture which many report to be effective in dealing with all sorts of conditions from stress, to depression and anxiety.
Wellness services like yoga and meditation classes and gym memberships on the other hand have also been shown to help cope with the stresses of work more effectively, as well as benefit the way they interact with issues and people in their wider lives too.
Bike to work scheme
With so many people looking to take better care of the environment right now, offering a subsidized bike-to-work scheme can be a very appealing benefit. Not to mention that they provide regular daily exercise.
Just be sure to choose a scheme model that works. For example, some businesses buy the bike outright for their employees and then let them pay it off directly through their wages in installments. Something that means the bike‘s ownership transfers to the employee after the payment period.
