Has Your Employer Increased Your Benefits Package?

Now that the competition for skilled employees is heating up, more employers are offering added benefits to improve recruiting and retention of their workforce. A survey by Jobkite.com shows that 56 percent have recently sweetened their benefit packages

Is your employer keeping pace?

Priorities have changed among employees, according to Jobkite. “They’re more focused on longevity and a work/life balance,” says Heather Galler, CEO of the firm.

Nearly nine out of 10 of those firms that say they are improving benefits are adding life, vision or increased health insurance. Sixty percent are now providing increased compensation by way of stock incentives, bonus plans or more money for savings plans.

Forty percent are increasing vacation time. Thirty-nine percent are offering new telecommunicating perks.

Some employess are going off the chart with unique benefits such as concierge services to run errands from shopping to pet-sitting so their employees can relax after work.

How do these findings compare with what’s going on at your place of work? What new perks, if any, has your employer added to your benefit package during the past year 18 months? Do you have any unique benefits.

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Here’s to your success…Ramon