Creative Benefit to Engage, Motivate, and Retain Employees in Columbia, Missouri
We all know that benefits are an important part of your compensation package, but are you offering employees the benefits they want? Kyle Lagunas, an HR Analyst at Software Advice has his own thoughts. He reached out to us with an article, Creative Benefits to Engage, Motivate, and Retain, and we thought it raised some interesting points. For example:
Healthy Living and Wellness Benefits. Susan Combs, President of Combs & Company, “The biggest benefit that employees ask for is gym membership reimbursement.” Wellness programs like WalkingSpree–which creates walking clubs, assigns teams and creates competitions – are another great way to motivate and engage employees to live healthy (thereby reducing your health care costs).
Flexible Work Options. Telecommuting and other forms of flexible work options make employees healthier and happier. And as Sara Sutton Fell, Founder and CEO of FlexJobs points out, studies show that, “Employers who offer flexible schedules and alternatives to the traditional nine-to-five not only see higher productivity, but also save on health-related benefits they already offer.” Stanford University conducted a big study that showed that telecommuters were four percent more productive than office workers, working more hours and taking a larger workload.
We thought this was an article worth sharing. Take a look at the full analysis on Kyle’s HR blog, and join the conversation.