Employee stock-ownership plans are also common, and sometimes companies vest workers fully from the start, with the employer paying from a small percentage up to full cost. But more critical to employees is to feel they have good leadership with interesting and challenging work. Include Concierge One of the hottest new benefits at Lockheed Martin is a concierge service that works just like those at hotels. You can call the concierge, who arranges for a company to change your car's oil in the company parking lot. Name your budget and the concierge service finds the best deal.
All services are free to the worker.
Flexible work hours have proved very popular, but the program was set up with the warning that abuses wouldn't be tolerated, especially because Lockheed Martin is a government contractor. Benefits at Lockheed Martin are judged not only against what other companies offer IT workers, but also on whether they help lower attrition, create better leaders or improve productivity. Signs of improved productivity might be an increase in the number of lines of code written or a decrease in the number of bugs in code. Lockheed Martin has a semiannual bonus program that is tied to employee performance. Benefits such as the concierge service create a better work environment that deals with the whole worker and lowers stress to improve performance, she says.