Worklife

Worklife benefits are recognized as specific tools to help a company be more effective in recruiting and retaining employees. It’s just the recognition that is issues in people’s lives that they have to cope with and are going to cope with them one way or another. The employer can either enlist them in doing so, or not. As the job market becomes more and more demanding, talented people are more and more difficult to recruit to a company. In order to stay competitive and keep these talented people worklife benefits have gained in popularity.

Work-life benefits goes beyond the traditional benefits of health, dental and retirement. From child care referral to employee discount services, the goal is to solve any problem that could keep an employee from focusing on their job.

Google Worklife Philosophy

    “The goal is to strip away everything that gets in our employees’ way. We provide a standard package of fringe benefits, but on top of that are first-class dining facilities, gyms, laundry rooms, massage rooms, haircuts, carwashes, dry cleaning, commuting buses – just about anything a hardworking employee might want. Let’s face it: programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.”

Liane Hornsey, director of an HR of goggle, 

The perks of working at Google range from free food to subsidized gym membership and time off for environmental projects or charity work. It sounds more a way of life than a job, and it’s a wonder that anyone ever leaves the company. “Our attrition rate is very low and I’m hugely proud of that,” Hornsey says.

Says E.Pluribus Massey, Let’s face it not every employer is the giant of Google. Some benefits Google offer to their employees are unrealistic for small to medium sized businesses.  However, most Worklife Benefits are little to no cost or little to no work. It’s really a matter or whether and employer seeks to do everything they can to make their employees happier and more productive.