Working Those Perks
Look around the office at many U.S. companies and you might see pool tables, ping pong tables, bins of free candy, and a massage chair.
And it's all because a booming economy is making it crucial to attract and keep employees with the right high-tech skill sets.
Among the employers listed as Fortune's 100 best employers, 83 percent offer child-care services.
Here's a sampling of some companies and the "perks" they offer, culled from the Internet:
Apple:
- Good cafeteria food at moderate prices
- Off-site recreational trips
- Monday morning bagels
- Frequent late-afternoon parties
- Soda
- On-site: basketball courts, volleyball, fitness center, pinball machines
- Bicycles to get around the campus
- Daycare center
- New parents (mothers and fathers) get eight weeks' paid leave and a program that reintroduces them to the workplace slowly.
- Dry cleaning
- Gym offering nail service and massages
- Parking garage and car detailing
- Florist
- Photo services
- Shoe repair
- Six restaurants
- Free food like popcorn, soup, and peanut butter
- Bagels on Mondays and Wednesdays
- Pool table, ping ping and video games
- $1 lunch
- Dry cleaning
- The Sun Store, offering such services as photo processing and floral arrangements
- Cafeteria and bistro with table service
- On-site oil change and corporate auto detailing
- Electric-car recharging docket (at the Menlo Park office)
- Injury clinics with physical therapists
- Company gym
- Lactation rooms for nursing mothers
- Ice cream
- Gym and sauna
- Swimming pool
- Basketball and tennis courts
- Industrial-strength espresso machines on each floor
- Party food and soda pop on Fridays