For the time being, the company will keep the other perks. The space is now being used for the accounting department and other office staff. Instead, the company will cover half the cost of a gym membership for employees. You do have to meet a minimum threshold, but we think the greatest value is in good health care. The one frivolous thing we still offer are 25 cent Cokes.
Cheap sodas are a far cry from the kind of luxuries dot-commers have come to love and expect.
And once one company ups the ante to, say, a BMW, others have to follow suit or risk losing their best designer to the company dangling the car keys. Yet changing gears to a streamlined approach to benefits could be troublesome, since the perks war has created workplaces that are still pretty cushy for a lot of industry workers. Privacy Policy Stock data provided by Stockpoint and its data suppliers.