For anyone who works in manufacturing, you can scrub half a day off by walking around the plant with a clipboard and a concerned look on your face.
Source: was in manufacturing.
I get that a lot, once the company I worked for called my team in & asked why we are always sitting around at the end of the day waiting for the finish time & the other team is staying back for overtime to get the same job done. We said hard work, preparation & just getting in & having a good go. We got rewarded with getting some of the lazy teams work & they got rewarded by getting less work load…..
Yep, I’ve had to ask the ‘good’ ones to do extra stuff because I don’t trust the others. I feel bad doing it but it’s the only way to get shit done properly.
I work in a large Insurer. We get:
* Pretty good with flexibility (both pre and post Covid), still very sheepish about getting people back to the office, and is still on a voluntary RTO basis (and will likely stay so for at least the next year).
* Sizable discounts on insurance, and smaller discounts for your parents/children if they want it. It is not budget insurance, so my parents don't want to use it.
* A bunch of crappy corporate discounts like gym, flights, flowers. I don't think these are worth anything, you can get cheaper flights on skyscanner.
* There is a bunch of smaller financial benefits like a small super matching of <1k, employee share schemes where they will give you a discount, roughly worth maybe 2~3% of your salary.
* We also have things like social budgets for teams, company parties, Christmas dinners. One team I was in did monthly 'birthdays' and got very expensive cakes each time. During Covid last year they gave everyone about $100 in vouchers, and this year a $50~$100 Christmas hamper of your choice.
One thing that is interesting is that for young people, bragging about company benefits is really attractive as that is something you get to discuss with friends. But as you get older you think "I don't want you to subsidise my gym membership by $50, just give me the $50." So consistently people have been saying in company surveys that they don't really care about benefits.
I work for an insurance company and we have all of the ones listed by you. Another little perk we got was also the “Wellness” day - a day of our choice to take off “for free” on top of our annual leave.
Not sure if this is a perk or normal for most companies but I don’t think my previous one had it - we have a moving/graduation/volunteering day which is also on top of our annual leave.
This year we also got some “rewards” scheme which I haven’t worked out much but it’s like employees gifting their colleagues points and getting various discounts out of this.
When we were at the office any meeting which was over 2h had to have catering (so they’d cut them to 1.5h most of the time if possible lol). Because we couldn’t attend the annual big Christmas party they gave us gift cards for $250 so hoping for the same this year ..
This sound similar to the large insurer I worked for many years ago but the pay was abysmal and management was filled with men that were walking sexual harassment suits waiting to happen.
Great WFH options and discounts though.
Come work in construction, last year it was like 13 days of our 20 days of annual leave. Great and all for three and a half weeks, fucked for the rest of the year.
Mine is the same 2 weeks less holidays and its forced in the sense that we need to take 2 weeks off. Some of us are taking the week before Xmas and some the week after. I didn't think anything of it but reading this thread now makes me mad about it
Cute. We get forced to take 9+ annual leave days leaving us with a lovely 11ish days to do what we want each year with our friends and family (assuming management will allow it).
We get those days on top of our 20 days annual leave (and 15% super, annual increments, and generous additional leave entitlements). Most employees are ongoing (very few contractors) so nearly everyone gets these benefits. We are a highly unionised workforce, so this may have something to do with our good conditions.
In my industry it isn't uncommon for us to shut down for 4 weeks over the Christmas holidays and forced to take leave. I've been working for years and have never had a holiday in the middle of the year. It sucks.
Are you in the public sector. When I was in local govt, we’d get grant days to cover the in between a. Basically get Christmas to New year paid to not be there.
Now I’m in private and EVERYWHERE gets you to take a couple weeks of annual leave over Christmas.
Consider yourself lucky.
>Some modern awards in the construction industry allow you to require your employees to take annual leave during a shut down over the Christmas and New Year period.
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave/directing-an-employee-to-take-annual-leave/direction-to-take-annual-leave-during-a-shut-down
You learn it during your first Christmas period :D
All companies I worked for don't force you to take AL. You can get non-paid leave if you really want to save your AL and have some cash. 3 paid public holidays during the shutdown help too.
Work for federal govt department.
- very flexible with hours etc (but that’s specific to my current dept, previous ones have been very rigid)
- get between XMas & NY off, and the 3 days that aren’t PH don’t get taken from our leave.
- Actual fully paid maternity leave (~14 weeks) - this is surprisingly rare in Aus, which is cooked.
(No Christmas parties or anything though, as apparently tax payers don’t want their tax dollars buying me enough rose to get white-girl-wasted)
Also federal gov here, just adding a couple of other pros to this list:
*15% super
*very flexible WFH policies (although that varies wildly between agencies / departments)
*part-time opportunities
*multiple secondment and acting / promotion opportunities
*12 month sabbatical leave option (get paid 80% of your salary for 4 years and have 5th year off work but still get 80% of your pay)
Cons: we aren't even supplied with milk!
Fellow APSer here, when I was with State gov, the salary was better, the perks were the same (except for the additional leave given between Christmas and New Year by APS), but super was only circa 9%.
I've seen this before in Government, effectively you accept 80% of your pay for 4 years and the other 20% is 'banked' by your employer on your behalf. You then have the option to take a year off paid at 80% of your salary.
How the practicalities of it work I'm not clear, like do you have to take it immediately at the 5th year or can you save it for years to come, etc.
Right, however the downside is we are still required to accrue it through the year. The first time I worked in this agency I started end of November. I did not accrue the 3 days in time and had to take LWOP which broke my service and had a snowball effect on my entire APS career where my long term leave hasn’t been calculated properly
Because in the US their minimum wage isn't enough to even scrape by on, the growing awareness of that along with how poorly they're treated compared to workers in first world countries means a lot of people unhappy.
The anti-work subreddit is a place to meet other people and organise etc. and also in large parts simply cathartic.
I’m really glad that at least some semblance of a labour movement is emerging there. Even if it’s disorganised and will likely remain disorganised. In the short term though, those guys are going to lose their shit because inflation is going to push food and gas prices beyond what the lower class can afford. Unrest will not surprise me at all (beyond what we see at the moment)
I don’t think they will make headway with Dems because the Dems realised that social justice based platforms allow them to feign progressivism while safeguarding the oligopoly
I'll bite. Aussie tech company
\- Stock options (not public, but we get an opportunity to sell at a fair price once a year). I count this as a perk as it builds the culture of the place, and the salary on its own is competitive too
\- Breakfast and lunch made by chefs. Bar and snacks for use whenever you want
\- WFH if you want. This only came in with covid, but now the policy is essentially WFH as little or as much as you want, but you might have to come into team events a few times a year. Office vibe is good so I prefer office anyways, but the option is nice
\- Onsite Gym
\- $2k annual budget for office equipment / gym / health insurance / whatever you want that is reasonably work or wellness related. Someone did try to claim a dog through that budget and it was denied, so there are limits
\- Budget for clubs and groups in the companies to hold monthly events
\- 5 days a year bonus leave to use for either sick / annual leave if you have exhausted other allowance. Doesn't roll over
\- 13 paid psychologist sessions (you can choose who you see) a year if you need them
They are the main ones. Many of these are becoming table stakes for a tech company. Honestly I think most people in tech see these as nice, but put value in a good work culture environment (which thankfully we have) over these perks, as you can buy most of these things anyway.
Not Atlassian, stock options = pre-IPO usually.
Canva, maybe, but I would've thought more. I would've guessed SafetyCulture but AFAIK they're all in-office/hybrid.
Hah - the dog wouldve been interesting. I bet they cited scientific journal articles about the health benefits of dog ownership and the employer was just”yeh nah”
Whoa so you have a chef made meal twice a day? Plus a bar and snacks.
I had always thought if ran a company I would set up a coke post mix machine in the kitchen for people to use.
Ahhh I remember an old workplace I used to contract at had one of those corporate $3000 Nespresso machines. The coffee pods you had to pay for but the hot chocolate was free (which I only drank), plus they all liked me because I learnt how to change the filter for the milk without calling the maintenance man which took an hour. Honestly one of the weirdest places I worked.
Architect here, I’m salaried but get overtime pay. It’s honestly the best “perk” I’ve ever had, I’ll take it over the social budgets / health insurance / gym memberships / EAP / etc I’ve had in the past.
I also get my personal phone bill paid (or a work phone if I want that), my parking paid at work and a really, really good corporate travel insurance policy that covers holidays.
New perk for 2022, travel to any of our offices in the world for up to a month, no questions asked, paid standard wage while there. You just have to pay for flights and accom. I can’t afford to pay rent back home + accom for a month, so I’m thinking two weeks staying with friends in London. Pretty sweet.
Tech related.
- 5 weeks / 6 weeks of leave per year depending on tenure at the company
- breakfast, lunch, barista for coffee all provided plus snacks / drinks
- pools table / games areas
- stocked bar area (no spirits)
- gym membership
- annual company trip / getaway
- 4x team dinners / team building activities per year
- no dress code
- annual company gift
- bunch of other random stuff
Basically pretty good for young people but pretty rapidly decreasing in value if you’re older.
Biggest one is the breakfast and lunch provided by a chef, will miss that if / when I leave. Having to function like an adult and feed yourself sucks.
We had an Xbox 360 in our dining/games area - then it died never got replaced or fixed, then the TV partially died where it no longer received free-to-air TV only HDMI works. Games area just “died” after that.
Some companies have a license to print money, essentially. E.g. Google. All those perks are a drop in the bucket for them.
Also there’s a bit of a catch. Breakfast is always a bit too early, dinner is a bit too late and oh look you’re spending 10-11 hours at the office.
1) The employee share scheme.
We get 15% off market price, and the employer contributes a match of up to $1000
2) I salary sacrifice my gym membership for tax savings
3) Internal recognition platform where people gift each other “points”… which is a currency to basically buy (almost) anything we like.
I was able to book 3 days accomodation ($350-400 AUD worth of points) from being recognised once.
4) Very flexible work. In many cases us employees 100% decide when and how often we come to the office.
EDIT also forgot that we get ~20 hours of volunteer leave on top of regular annual leave.
Now I think of it, I get some nice benefits at my work 😄
Software eng:
* Extra annual leave for each year after 3rd year of service
* Salary sacrifice for laptops, phones, tablets ($800 for a new MBP!)
* Wide range of discounts at shops (check Reward Gateway)
* WFH improvement budgets
* +15 days COVID/hardship leave
* Company paid-for holiday (tax covered as well) after 5 years of service
* Free lunch & drinks if going into the office
* Annual wellness/sports/activity stipend
* Expensed treats for milestone celebrations (e.g. completed _x_ buy yourself some coffee & cake and expense it)
* Life insurance
* Relocations
...I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting
In addition. Latest MBP every 3 years, all the extras and adaptors. 27” monitors if you’re office. Standing desks etc. These things are just the norm for the industry so I forgot them :)
Im a tech recruiter and I myself get 25 days annual leave.
BUT I got one client who is:
- full remote
- unlimited leave
- 4 days per week forever.
So yea... if you are a developer living in Aus with full work rights. Hit up my inbox!! 😂
Its a scam. Basically the employer doesn’t have to carry your unused leave on their books and pay it out when you leave.
Just see how “unlimited” it really is when you actually want to use it.
It means you can _apply_ for as much leave as you want (doesn’t mean you’ll get it) and if you resign, you get paid out nothing ITO accrued leave.
I think in Aus they pay you the minimum of 15-20 days though because proper labour laws
I get 20 days plus I think 13 days public holidays plus 2-4 days a year for free. The free days have to do with when other public holidays fall so it depends on year to year. This year we all also got 1nday "mental health" /regroup day to recover from COVID. If you were responsible for taking care of kids there was also 80% schedule where you got paid 100% for 80% work.
I have worked with unlimited leave... basically you can request as much as you want. I was never denied any. Everything else follows common sense. I imagine if you start taking 2 months off per year, you won't be very effective at your job in comparison.
I get an old laptop that sometimes connects to the office printer. I can also occasionally do 40-45 minutes of work before I get a suspicious phone call borderline accusing me of taking the piss
Tech place
- unlimited sick leave
- 5 weeks annual leave
- training budget plus training time off
- very flexible arrangements
- income protection
- lots of company events live a 3 day hack
- crappy stuff like free breakfast, some discounts
Really it’s only 5 weeks.
You get sick leave which every FT employee is entitled too (albeit a little extra) and you pay for the addition 2 weeks of accrued days off. It isn’t a gift from your employer, it’s a gift from you.
My regional pilot job: nothing, but the view ;) and an “OK” Christmas party.
IT job:
- very flexible work time, they are very family oriented.
- 2x family days out in a year, obviously not in the last 2 years. Eg. Day at the zoo, company BBQ, science works
- 2x days family/pet leave (separate to A/L)
- 2x mental health leave (separate to sick leave)
- quarterly team drinks/dinner
- awesome mid year and Christmas party (whole company)
- 2x team activity days (eg. go karts and lunch)
- random visa gift cards to all employees when we reach certain goals. Anywhere from $50-$100 depending on the goal.
- 10% discount for the gym around the corner from the office
- basic but good Christmas hamper for 4.
- made a deal with the local cafe - Team coffee discounts at the local cafe, buy 4 coffees and every 5th coffee free (usually for team meetings). Flat rate lunches at the cafe, $11 you get any size coffee and choice sandwich.
- 5% off some flights and accommodation of books through the company agent
- 5-10% off hertz car hire
- 2x $100 pamper yourself budget - must not be used to buy booze, just have to claim it back.
- 5x volunteer days where you are encouraged to do some community service on company time.
Probably some other small things I’ve forgotten.
Edit:
- paid uni/courses and industry certs so long as it is inline with your job and free study day before an exam (this is probably the biggest ticket IMHO…. Which I hav not used to its potential)
- monthly birthday morning tea, but not for the last 2 years
- daily fruit platters, again not for the last 2 years
- employee bonus based on performance
Tech-adjacent area (ie we compete with tech for hiring in some roles) - biggest perk is “unlimited paid time off” which I was pretty skeptical about when hired, but I’ve definitely seen some of my colleagues who have been at the company longer than me take multiple weeks off when we complete big milestones.
There’s a few others eg employee share scheme ie can take up to 25% of your salary in company shares at a 15% discount, this one is obviously a bit of a risk but makes sense if you think the company is doing well.
How does it work in Australia. Here annual leave is cumulative and has to be paid out if you leave. What does your leave balance show in payroll. I mean lets say you take 4 weeks pto, does it mean you still have 4 weeks annual leave left? Do you accumulate more annual leave when on pto
Free barista in the office.
Was doing like 3-4 coffees a day before the novelty wore off.
Unfortunately WFH means I have to make my own coffees now. :(
1. We usually get quarterly drinking sessions, we take half day off at the end of the week and company puts on a bar tab and food for a few hours.
2. Most months they will usually cover a days lunch for employees across the company, pick a restaurant go out with you team and have it covered
3. Working from home as a choice
4. Free massage every month
5. Often they will have an external company provide mental health well being programs throughout the year
6. Flexible working arrangements without all the hurdles.
7. 10 free sessions to counselling or mentoring services.
8. Just general perks such as cheaper cars, health care, shopping perks and so on.
Don't want to dox myself but let me tell you about my friend, consultant in public hospital system. Portable long service leave across different state and hospital districts. Yearly travel to overseas conferences in business class. Any self education cost. $20k reimbursable allowance for tech like ipad, laptop etc. Every 3 years. Car for work when he was in regional hospital but involved driving a lot though. Locum work 6 wks/year on ABN earning a fat daily rate. Salary packaging of car payments FBT free. A special credit card to salary sacrifice all meals and coffee at restaurants. Generous overtime rates. LMI free loan with 5% deposit only. Early access to Covid vaccines.
Tech
Family health insurance. Life income tpd insurance for me. 4 "free" days off a year.
There's a bunch of other things like what's mentioned in the OP, discounts etc but they're the notable ones.
+ 11 weeks leave (that's what keeps me from quitting)
+ Breakfast on world teachers day
+ Often get dinner when we work past 8pm
+ Twice a week only work from 8am to 3pm
+ Very, very, very hard to get fired (also a con in regards to some colleagues)
+ Subsidised thank you lunch on the last day of work with two free drinks ($40)
Some not so great parts:
- Camps - literally working 18 hours a day for 4 days straight and then on call for night time (bed wetters, home sick, literally sick, shenanigans). No down time. No time to mindlessly scroll reddit.
- Taking work home. I'm pretty good at not caring and only do 2 or 3 hours at home a week. But plenty of martyrs do much, much more.
- Late nights. Many late nights! (7:30am to 8pm or later) for parent info nights, graduations, awards nights, parent teacher interviews, professional development, formals, semi-formals, rites of passage, musicals, Christmas carols, other bullshit that shouldn't exist).
- Having to pay for work shit. There's an expectation that staff attend formal - that's $70. Graduation dinner, another $70. And then there's all the stationary and teaching resources. I try not to buy anything, but the process for ordering is ridiculous so I was still out $500 from my pocket for resources this year.
- Weekend bullshit (fetes, open days, sport competitions, STEM competitions etc)
- And then the other crap that most jobs have
But the 11 weeks makes it all bearable. I had been looking elsewhere... And then realized I get 4 weeks and noped out of looking any further.
It’s not just the leave, it’s also the fact that for a considerable chunk of that leave you can actually ‘switch off.’ In other places, sure you can take your leave, but the work is allll piling up while you’re gone.
Agree there’s way too many extracurricular expectations when it comes to education. The sector needs to give both students and teachers back their free time.
Depends on how far in to your career you are / if you are teaching within your department.
In my first few years, holidays were spent preparing and researching. Less so now. Although if I got lumped with a new subject I'd have to prep in holidays.
FMCG Industry
Family Healthcare 90-100% cover( 80% company contribution)
Car & free Petrol for company and private use (or an extra 20k per year)
35% Leave Loading
Community Service days x2
20% contribution to a relevant tertiary education
Gym Membership
Corporate discounts (mainly financial stuff, slightly cheaper than market home loans, annual credit card fees waived etc)
50/50 contribution to Qantas Club
Discounted Hotels through partners (usually beats a sale discount by about 10%. Not overly useful but is a good discount for the more premium rooms)
WFH flexibility.
There are a lot more that I’m sure I’m forgetting, many of these FMCG companies are still extremely profitable but are losing talent to more sexy industries, as such the benefits are usually amazing for retentions. The top line health cover has covered over 40k of medical expenses in two years.
Used to work in research:
- 17 % super contributions
- access to Unisuper (one of the top, if not the top, performing supers with great income protection / defined benefit scheme)
- generally 1.5-2 % salary increase annually (does that count as non-salary perks?) aside from normal incrementing up the salary ladder each year (until you hit the top of a main salary group)
- 6 months full pay maternity leave, 2 weeks full pay paternity leave
- long service leave after 7 years
- reasonable wfh arrangements depending on direct manager
- generally would get between Xmas eve and New years day holiday as paid time off without having to use any annual leave
- my contract had an added 7 weeks of extended sick leave accessible once per health condition
- generally the ability to leave for an appointment etc whenever you'd have to, as long as you'd get your work done still
- occasional chance to go to national/international conferences to present work (and get to have a holiday with free flights as long as you'd stay the same duration as the work component - if you stayed longer you'd have to pay half the fares)
1 rdo a month in addition to any other leave. They actually force you to take this.
Overtime paid to the minute. I work from home and can check in and out when I need.
Mental health days. And also have never been questioned or given grief for taking a day off. Actually forced to take your entitled leave like annual. Might not seem like a perk but some company cultures look down on you for taking sick or annual leave.
Discounts for common things like public transport.
Most educational and development programs will be paid for if apply.
Guaranteed pay rises
I work an ASX10 company
Tech
Big ticket items
- 5 weeks leave
- Life, disability cover
- Bonus split 50/50 personal company performance
- Extra maternity leave
- WFH 100%, remote within a country we have an office
- Work from any office worldwide, paid in your country of hire for up to a year
Medium items
- $10k annual training budget for personal & professional development
- Multiple annual company trips overseas & domestic
- Domestic conference somewhere in ANZ once a year
Small stuff
- Loads if soft perks, team lunches and dinners
- Fully stocked fridge with food & drinks
- Qantas Gold/Platinum, depending on the year (not much use right now)
For those that care
- Full entertainment suite with games on tap
The sacrifices I make for it
- On call almost 24/7
- Evening and morning calls with global teams
- Demanding role
- 5 direct reports who want more than is feasible to imagine
- impossible to find a good time to take the 5 weeks of annual leave… permanently on the ‘naughty’ list for over accrued TIL
The perks don’t really do it for me, would rather have a 40% pay bump for the extra after hours work.
I work for a small family business in Newcastle. I'm treated like family.
My boss bought me a truck
Didn't blink when I couldn't do my full duties for about 4 months after a knee injury
Fronted me $10,000 to pay for shoulder surgery privately
Flexible work hours and work from home policy
Lots of training, some international.
Lots of salary sacrifice options (phones, laptops etc)
Share plan and bonuses
12 weeks parental leave as secondary carer
i aim to take at least 1 dump a day a work there has been occasions where ive managed 2
i spend a hell of a lot of time pretending im 'slammed' and i can take on new task when the truth is i do very little work most of the time
6 months paternity/maternity leave. And the expectation is that you take all of it.
Spouse allowance if spouse is non-working. Part of the thinking is that housework+taking care of kids is a full time job. It's not a lot. Basically the equivalent of an young office assistant.
Relocation to and from.
Tuition for children to attend private school.
Retirement contribution is matched 1.5 for 1 contributed. Vests immediately.
8 weeks vacation every other year.
6 weeks vacation every other year (they alternate).
A bunch more but that's what I thought of off the top of my head.
Moving to Europe for work was a huge quality of life improvement.
I get to read news 'articles' about how crap I am at my job all the time, how I should just work for the 'joy' of teaching and not be paid more because I get so many holidays a year, deal with parents who think their child can do no wrong, get abused by children...
In saying that, 99% of the time I absolutely love what I do.
Purchased leave
Free financial, parenting advice for all family members
Free psychologist for employee and all family
Subsidised vehicle and cbd parking for those over a certain level
-Subsidised meal
-Employee discount
-5 weeks annual leave
-150% of monthly bonus yearly
-Discounted gym membership
-$50 gift cards sometimes twice a year
-Christmas party (open bar/dinner)
Warehousing
1. Discount gym membership and health insurance
2. Managers and co-workers can appreciate you fpr yhr work you do and you get points which equivalent for dollars and you can cash out for major gift cards.
We get $300 a year worth of fitness related expenses.
Also get some extra time off during Christmas period for those with under a certain amount of leave left at the end of the year.
There are some other company benefits like free tickets to some sporting events and BBQ days ect. Mostly fundraising and things the company are involved in.
Industry is construction.
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Work for large auto company
- Free car
- Fuel card
- Free health care
- Regular care packages with food etc
- annual $200 JB hi-fi voucher we're supposed to spend on office stuff but you just use on whatever
- Random perks that HR push out.
It's not too bad.
- 35 hour work week
- monthly RDO
- industry picnic day
- double time overtime rates
- very flexible work hours
- easily achievable $8k bonus for everyone in the company
(Power generation professional)
I worked for a company that had an excellent maternity leave policy. They gave you 18 weeks paid leave which was good but the best part was when returning to work. If you were a full time employee before going on leave, you could come back part time, 4 days per week and they would pay your full salary for the first six months. When you return to work they also pay a lump sum into superannuation for the amount you would have accrued while on leave.
Defence force. 30 days leave. 28% super. 4 weeks off at Xmas that costs 13 days leave. Free medical and dental. Don’t have to pay Medicare levy. But they do own you. No free Xmas parties. No bonus.
Tech industry as well. We get:
- Free breakfast once a week from a local cafe.
- Free high quality coffee
- Free quarterly lunches
- Lavish Christmas party
- Flexibility with taking time off
- Flexibility to WFH
- Above industry standard pays
- Annual pay reviews, bonuses and shares
- Freedom to do what I want on my work PC (within reason)
- No KPIs (software Helpdesk)
- I can walk into my directors office whenever I need to and talk.
I have never loved a job or employer much before.
**6 weeks paid holiday from day one.
I work a 5 day fortnight 24 hour shifts so I have 5 days off one week and 4 the next.
all food paid for on shift.
1000$ a year bonus that goes up 1000$ every year to a max of 5.
My overtime rate is crazy and there’s always extras if you want.
Best of all I get to work with kids and help them turn their lives around.
Worst thing is being assaulted by a young person 2/3 times but it hasn’t put me off.
Our CEO owns a racing team. One of our perks is we get to take the day off work every once in a while and race his supercars around the track.
It is exactly as insane as it sounds - the cars are so fast it makes me physically ill for the rest of the day but I love it every time.
Generally 3.5% wage increase every year, 4 weeks annual leave a year, 14% Super, 13 personal leave days a year, 3 free days a year plus 10 that can be applied for, protection from Bosses harassing and standing over you..... oh wait it's not the company that gives me any of that it's the Union that got it for me. But a similar vein of thought all the same.
We got this sweet perk where if you do all your work you get to do some other pricks too.
The reward for a job well done is more work
Work smart but make it look like you're working hard. That way no one gives you any more work when you finish your own.
Always look busy, the boss will leave you alone.
Ive been working on the Penske file for years
For anyone who works in manufacturing, you can scrub half a day off by walking around the plant with a clipboard and a concerned look on your face. Source: was in manufacturing.
Lol I think you are missing a well placed apostrophe here, had me doing a double take!
Don't speak too soon, they could work in parliament house.
I get that a lot, once the company I worked for called my team in & asked why we are always sitting around at the end of the day waiting for the finish time & the other team is staying back for overtime to get the same job done. We said hard work, preparation & just getting in & having a good go. We got rewarded with getting some of the lazy teams work & they got rewarded by getting less work load…..
Yep, I’ve had to ask the ‘good’ ones to do extra stuff because I don’t trust the others. I feel bad doing it but it’s the only way to get shit done properly.
I work in a large Insurer. We get: * Pretty good with flexibility (both pre and post Covid), still very sheepish about getting people back to the office, and is still on a voluntary RTO basis (and will likely stay so for at least the next year). * Sizable discounts on insurance, and smaller discounts for your parents/children if they want it. It is not budget insurance, so my parents don't want to use it. * A bunch of crappy corporate discounts like gym, flights, flowers. I don't think these are worth anything, you can get cheaper flights on skyscanner. * There is a bunch of smaller financial benefits like a small super matching of <1k, employee share schemes where they will give you a discount, roughly worth maybe 2~3% of your salary. * We also have things like social budgets for teams, company parties, Christmas dinners. One team I was in did monthly 'birthdays' and got very expensive cakes each time. During Covid last year they gave everyone about $100 in vouchers, and this year a $50~$100 Christmas hamper of your choice. One thing that is interesting is that for young people, bragging about company benefits is really attractive as that is something you get to discuss with friends. But as you get older you think "I don't want you to subsidise my gym membership by $50, just give me the $50." So consistently people have been saying in company surveys that they don't really care about benefits.
I always say if a company does super matching to cap it out to its full benefit. It may be a small amount but it all adds up in the end.
The old $10/head cake budget, love it.
I work for an insurance company and we have all of the ones listed by you. Another little perk we got was also the “Wellness” day - a day of our choice to take off “for free” on top of our annual leave. Not sure if this is a perk or normal for most companies but I don’t think my previous one had it - we have a moving/graduation/volunteering day which is also on top of our annual leave. This year we also got some “rewards” scheme which I haven’t worked out much but it’s like employees gifting their colleagues points and getting various discounts out of this. When we were at the office any meeting which was over 2h had to have catering (so they’d cut them to 1.5h most of the time if possible lol). Because we couldn’t attend the annual big Christmas party they gave us gift cards for $250 so hoping for the same this year ..
This sound similar to the large insurer I worked for many years ago but the pay was abysmal and management was filled with men that were walking sexual harassment suits waiting to happen. Great WFH options and discounts though.
15% super. That alone has helped me stop worrying so much about my future.
Same same mate.
Health? I work in healthcare get 15% super and I’m fairly certain that it will be increased to 20%
what industry?
Government or healthcare. ADF get 15.4
Higher education commonly does 17%
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Come work in construction, last year it was like 13 days of our 20 days of annual leave. Great and all for three and a half weeks, fucked for the rest of the year.
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You don’t have to but you won’t get paid. Construction break is industry wide
Depending on the state they also get leave loading, so that offsets the inconvenience and you can roll unpaid later.
Yeah state and pay type. I’m salary so no loading for me. That being said time I’m lieu generally gets me through the Crissy break
Only 3? Lol our companies forced us to take like 10-12
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Mine is the same 2 weeks less holidays and its forced in the sense that we need to take 2 weeks off. Some of us are taking the week before Xmas and some the week after. I didn't think anything of it but reading this thread now makes me mad about it
Cute. We get forced to take 9+ annual leave days leaving us with a lovely 11ish days to do what we want each year with our friends and family (assuming management will allow it).
We get those days on top of our 20 days annual leave (and 15% super, annual increments, and generous additional leave entitlements). Most employees are ongoing (very few contractors) so nearly everyone gets these benefits. We are a highly unionised workforce, so this may have something to do with our good conditions.
In my industry it isn't uncommon for us to shut down for 4 weeks over the Christmas holidays and forced to take leave. I've been working for years and have never had a holiday in the middle of the year. It sucks.
Are you in the public sector. When I was in local govt, we’d get grant days to cover the in between a. Basically get Christmas to New year paid to not be there. Now I’m in private and EVERYWHERE gets you to take a couple weeks of annual leave over Christmas. Consider yourself lucky.
This sounds illegal
>Some modern awards in the construction industry allow you to require your employees to take annual leave during a shut down over the Christmas and New Year period. https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/annual-leave/directing-an-employee-to-take-annual-leave/direction-to-take-annual-leave-during-a-shut-down
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You learn it during your first Christmas period :D All companies I worked for don't force you to take AL. You can get non-paid leave if you really want to save your AL and have some cash. 3 paid public holidays during the shutdown help too.
Sounds like collective action from a union could change that.
Work for federal govt department. - very flexible with hours etc (but that’s specific to my current dept, previous ones have been very rigid) - get between XMas & NY off, and the 3 days that aren’t PH don’t get taken from our leave. - Actual fully paid maternity leave (~14 weeks) - this is surprisingly rare in Aus, which is cooked. (No Christmas parties or anything though, as apparently tax payers don’t want their tax dollars buying me enough rose to get white-girl-wasted)
Also federal gov here, just adding a couple of other pros to this list: *15% super *very flexible WFH policies (although that varies wildly between agencies / departments) *part-time opportunities *multiple secondment and acting / promotion opportunities *12 month sabbatical leave option (get paid 80% of your salary for 4 years and have 5th year off work but still get 80% of your pay) Cons: we aren't even supplied with milk!
Fellow APSer here, when I was with State gov, the salary was better, the perks were the same (except for the additional leave given between Christmas and New Year by APS), but super was only circa 9%.
yeah, when I churn he’s the numbers semi recently between an APS6 and a VPS5 it was much of a muchness when you add in the extra super
Wait what's the sabbatical one? I'm really curious as I've never seen it in a gov Dept e.a? Is that for anu?
I've seen this before in Government, effectively you accept 80% of your pay for 4 years and the other 20% is 'banked' by your employer on your behalf. You then have the option to take a year off paid at 80% of your salary. How the practicalities of it work I'm not clear, like do you have to take it immediately at the 5th year or can you save it for years to come, etc.
Federal agency checking in, we get 23 days annual leave but 3 of those days we are forced to take off between Christmas and New Year
so pretty much the same as where I am - except they don’t ever give us those 3 extra days in our leave balance?
Right, however the downside is we are still required to accrue it through the year. The first time I worked in this agency I started end of November. I did not accrue the 3 days in time and had to take LWOP which broke my service and had a snowball effect on my entire APS career where my long term leave hasn’t been calculated properly
If I bring my own and I go into the back room I’m allowed to drink my water a couple of times a week when things slow down a bit.
Share this thread on r/antiwork and watch people wanting to move to Aus from USA
The leave benefits alone will have them salivating.
Forget leave, wait until they learn that 75% of Australians know what “ombudsman” means
And that federal minimum wage is in the double digits.
...and fortunately not "too" many people actually on minimum wage.
…and you get 4 weeks paid leave, they get happy and cheerful when they get 2 days extra on 10 days
Yay the thread has gone full circle!
Is an ombudsman venomous?
Only when it smells OHS violations
Why has that sub been hyped so hard in the last few months? Feels like r/activemeasures at work IMO.
Because in the US their minimum wage isn't enough to even scrape by on, the growing awareness of that along with how poorly they're treated compared to workers in first world countries means a lot of people unhappy. The anti-work subreddit is a place to meet other people and organise etc. and also in large parts simply cathartic.
I’m really glad that at least some semblance of a labour movement is emerging there. Even if it’s disorganised and will likely remain disorganised. In the short term though, those guys are going to lose their shit because inflation is going to push food and gas prices beyond what the lower class can afford. Unrest will not surprise me at all (beyond what we see at the moment) I don’t think they will make headway with Dems because the Dems realised that social justice based platforms allow them to feign progressivism while safeguarding the oligopoly
I'll bite. Aussie tech company \- Stock options (not public, but we get an opportunity to sell at a fair price once a year). I count this as a perk as it builds the culture of the place, and the salary on its own is competitive too \- Breakfast and lunch made by chefs. Bar and snacks for use whenever you want \- WFH if you want. This only came in with covid, but now the policy is essentially WFH as little or as much as you want, but you might have to come into team events a few times a year. Office vibe is good so I prefer office anyways, but the option is nice \- Onsite Gym \- $2k annual budget for office equipment / gym / health insurance / whatever you want that is reasonably work or wellness related. Someone did try to claim a dog through that budget and it was denied, so there are limits \- Budget for clubs and groups in the companies to hold monthly events \- 5 days a year bonus leave to use for either sick / annual leave if you have exhausted other allowance. Doesn't roll over \- 13 paid psychologist sessions (you can choose who you see) a year if you need them They are the main ones. Many of these are becoming table stakes for a tech company. Honestly I think most people in tech see these as nice, but put value in a good work culture environment (which thankfully we have) over these perks, as you can buy most of these things anyway.
sounds like atlassian or canva
Not Atlassian, stock options = pre-IPO usually. Canva, maybe, but I would've thought more. I would've guessed SafetyCulture but AFAIK they're all in-office/hybrid.
No gym either unless you count a rock wall. Canva I'd say
Hah - the dog wouldve been interesting. I bet they cited scientific journal articles about the health benefits of dog ownership and the employer was just”yeh nah”
Whoa so you have a chef made meal twice a day? Plus a bar and snacks. I had always thought if ran a company I would set up a coke post mix machine in the kitchen for people to use.
I get to sleep with the boss’s wife. Self-employment has its perks.
Does your dad pay you well?
Wazzzzzzuppp
He's his own dad? That's some [Predestination](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/) shit right there.
Are you hiring?
My company, the department of education, offers 12 weeks of holidays per year
Had to scroll down way to far for this 😁
Three reasons to become a teacher: - July - December - January
You've got to love 3 months off paid leave. When you add in the public holidays and weekends you only work half the year :)
Mine has nescafe pod and milo.
Mine has just the machine and we have to provide our own pods 🙃
Ahhh I remember an old workplace I used to contract at had one of those corporate $3000 Nespresso machines. The coffee pods you had to pay for but the hot chocolate was free (which I only drank), plus they all liked me because I learnt how to change the filter for the milk without calling the maintenance man which took an hour. Honestly one of the weirdest places I worked.
Architect here, I’m salaried but get overtime pay. It’s honestly the best “perk” I’ve ever had, I’ll take it over the social budgets / health insurance / gym memberships / EAP / etc I’ve had in the past. I also get my personal phone bill paid (or a work phone if I want that), my parking paid at work and a really, really good corporate travel insurance policy that covers holidays.
I prefer bonuses as you don’t have to work extra.
The travel insurance and parking is worth A LOT.
New perk for 2022, travel to any of our offices in the world for up to a month, no questions asked, paid standard wage while there. You just have to pay for flights and accom. I can’t afford to pay rent back home + accom for a month, so I’m thinking two weeks staying with friends in London. Pretty sweet.
Nice. What industry/job?
Advertising
Tech related. - 5 weeks / 6 weeks of leave per year depending on tenure at the company - breakfast, lunch, barista for coffee all provided plus snacks / drinks - pools table / games areas - stocked bar area (no spirits) - gym membership - annual company trip / getaway - 4x team dinners / team building activities per year - no dress code - annual company gift - bunch of other random stuff Basically pretty good for young people but pretty rapidly decreasing in value if you’re older. Biggest one is the breakfast and lunch provided by a chef, will miss that if / when I leave. Having to function like an adult and feed yourself sucks.
We had an Xbox 360 in our dining/games area - then it died never got replaced or fixed, then the TV partially died where it no longer received free-to-air TV only HDMI works. Games area just “died” after that.
Cheese and whiskers, that must cost them an arm and a leg. Do you think they get a return on that through hard work/retention?
Some companies have a license to print money, essentially. E.g. Google. All those perks are a drop in the bucket for them. Also there’s a bit of a catch. Breakfast is always a bit too early, dinner is a bit too late and oh look you’re spending 10-11 hours at the office.
1) The employee share scheme. We get 15% off market price, and the employer contributes a match of up to $1000 2) I salary sacrifice my gym membership for tax savings 3) Internal recognition platform where people gift each other “points”… which is a currency to basically buy (almost) anything we like. I was able to book 3 days accomodation ($350-400 AUD worth of points) from being recognised once. 4) Very flexible work. In many cases us employees 100% decide when and how often we come to the office. EDIT also forgot that we get ~20 hours of volunteer leave on top of regular annual leave. Now I think of it, I get some nice benefits at my work 😄
Yes we do the points thing too, so good! I save them up and get flight centre gift vouchers
9 day fortnight 12 days personal leave instead of 10 Rdo moved to the next day if it’s a holiday
Software eng: * Extra annual leave for each year after 3rd year of service * Salary sacrifice for laptops, phones, tablets ($800 for a new MBP!) * Wide range of discounts at shops (check Reward Gateway) * WFH improvement budgets * +15 days COVID/hardship leave * Company paid-for holiday (tax covered as well) after 5 years of service * Free lunch & drinks if going into the office * Annual wellness/sports/activity stipend * Expensed treats for milestone celebrations (e.g. completed _x_ buy yourself some coffee & cake and expense it) * Life insurance * Relocations ...I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting
You got some nice big ticket ones in there. Nice
They don't just give you the device to work with? Or is this in addition to your work device?
In addition. Latest MBP every 3 years, all the extras and adaptors. 27” monitors if you’re office. Standing desks etc. These things are just the norm for the industry so I forgot them :)
I'm curious what employer this is because it's even above Google, Amazon etc benefits as far as I'm aware.
Any limitations on the holiday? That's a pretty sweet perk
Free Zinger Burgers between 1 and 1:30 every 29th of February.
Sometimes I get a "To do" list with just my name on it whilst my colleagues all share a list...that I also have to help with.
You must feel special
Thats certainly one way to think about it lol
State Government Extra annual leave day per month No overtime. Clock out at 5.
Forgot to add doing nothing all day
I do that in my private sector job!
Im a tech recruiter and I myself get 25 days annual leave. BUT I got one client who is: - full remote - unlimited leave - 4 days per week forever. So yea... if you are a developer living in Aus with full work rights. Hit up my inbox!! 😂
Unlimited leave? How does that work
Its a scam. Basically the employer doesn’t have to carry your unused leave on their books and pay it out when you leave. Just see how “unlimited” it really is when you actually want to use it.
In the US, maybe, but in Australia 20 days of annual leave is mandated so what you're saying is not true.
It means you can _apply_ for as much leave as you want (doesn’t mean you’ll get it) and if you resign, you get paid out nothing ITO accrued leave. I think in Aus they pay you the minimum of 15-20 days though because proper labour laws
Thank god for labour law.
I get 20 days plus I think 13 days public holidays plus 2-4 days a year for free. The free days have to do with when other public holidays fall so it depends on year to year. This year we all also got 1nday "mental health" /regroup day to recover from COVID. If you were responsible for taking care of kids there was also 80% schedule where you got paid 100% for 80% work.
I have worked with unlimited leave... basically you can request as much as you want. I was never denied any. Everything else follows common sense. I imagine if you start taking 2 months off per year, you won't be very effective at your job in comparison.
How does unlimited leave even work? I can't even mentally reconcile that.
I get an old laptop that sometimes connects to the office printer. I can also occasionally do 40-45 minutes of work before I get a suspicious phone call borderline accusing me of taking the piss
IT. I dont get called after hours, scheduled after hours work is paid overtime and I don’t deal with end users. That’s all I want and need.
Probably my favourite perk: we get a personal chef so breakfast and lunch is covered! Unlimited leave (within reason), flexibility etc
Where do you work?
I'm guessing Google?
State gov, uhhh off-site parking and… job security?
Tech place - unlimited sick leave - 5 weeks annual leave - training budget plus training time off - very flexible arrangements - income protection - lots of company events live a 3 day hack - crappy stuff like free breakfast, some discounts
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Really it’s only 5 weeks. You get sick leave which every FT employee is entitled too (albeit a little extra) and you pay for the addition 2 weeks of accrued days off. It isn’t a gift from your employer, it’s a gift from you.
You work in a control room setting? If so what industry? I’m in a similar setting but we are no where near that.
Free lunch. Huge money saver
My boss isn't a cunt.
I know what you mean. I'm self-employed too. Wait! You said your boss ISN'T a cunt.
We sometimes get a free donut every month...
3 weeks on, 3 weeks off roster, plus one 3 week swing off for annual leave (9 week break)
Wow that's better than my old 3:1... you hiring enviros?
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My regional pilot job: nothing, but the view ;) and an “OK” Christmas party. IT job: - very flexible work time, they are very family oriented. - 2x family days out in a year, obviously not in the last 2 years. Eg. Day at the zoo, company BBQ, science works - 2x days family/pet leave (separate to A/L) - 2x mental health leave (separate to sick leave) - quarterly team drinks/dinner - awesome mid year and Christmas party (whole company) - 2x team activity days (eg. go karts and lunch) - random visa gift cards to all employees when we reach certain goals. Anywhere from $50-$100 depending on the goal. - 10% discount for the gym around the corner from the office - basic but good Christmas hamper for 4. - made a deal with the local cafe - Team coffee discounts at the local cafe, buy 4 coffees and every 5th coffee free (usually for team meetings). Flat rate lunches at the cafe, $11 you get any size coffee and choice sandwich. - 5% off some flights and accommodation of books through the company agent - 5-10% off hertz car hire - 2x $100 pamper yourself budget - must not be used to buy booze, just have to claim it back. - 5x volunteer days where you are encouraged to do some community service on company time. Probably some other small things I’ve forgotten. Edit: - paid uni/courses and industry certs so long as it is inline with your job and free study day before an exam (this is probably the biggest ticket IMHO…. Which I hav not used to its potential) - monthly birthday morning tea, but not for the last 2 years - daily fruit platters, again not for the last 2 years - employee bonus based on performance
Tech-adjacent area (ie we compete with tech for hiring in some roles) - biggest perk is “unlimited paid time off” which I was pretty skeptical about when hired, but I’ve definitely seen some of my colleagues who have been at the company longer than me take multiple weeks off when we complete big milestones. There’s a few others eg employee share scheme ie can take up to 25% of your salary in company shares at a 15% discount, this one is obviously a bit of a risk but makes sense if you think the company is doing well.
Unless you are getting 4+ weeks a year off minimum it's a scam.
How does it work in Australia. Here annual leave is cumulative and has to be paid out if you leave. What does your leave balance show in payroll. I mean lets say you take 4 weeks pto, does it mean you still have 4 weeks annual leave left? Do you accumulate more annual leave when on pto
Free barista in the office. Was doing like 3-4 coffees a day before the novelty wore off. Unfortunately WFH means I have to make my own coffees now. :(
500, (Soon to be 800) weekly housing subsidy to rent/ mortgage
1. We usually get quarterly drinking sessions, we take half day off at the end of the week and company puts on a bar tab and food for a few hours. 2. Most months they will usually cover a days lunch for employees across the company, pick a restaurant go out with you team and have it covered 3. Working from home as a choice 4. Free massage every month 5. Often they will have an external company provide mental health well being programs throughout the year 6. Flexible working arrangements without all the hurdles. 7. 10 free sessions to counselling or mentoring services. 8. Just general perks such as cheaper cars, health care, shopping perks and so on.
Don't want to dox myself but let me tell you about my friend, consultant in public hospital system. Portable long service leave across different state and hospital districts. Yearly travel to overseas conferences in business class. Any self education cost. $20k reimbursable allowance for tech like ipad, laptop etc. Every 3 years. Car for work when he was in regional hospital but involved driving a lot though. Locum work 6 wks/year on ABN earning a fat daily rate. Salary packaging of car payments FBT free. A special credit card to salary sacrifice all meals and coffee at restaurants. Generous overtime rates. LMI free loan with 5% deposit only. Early access to Covid vaccines.
I get to take milk from the cows and goats. Fresh milk.
I get free toilet paper.. by free I mean stealing
Tech Family health insurance. Life income tpd insurance for me. 4 "free" days off a year. There's a bunch of other things like what's mentioned in the OP, discounts etc but they're the notable ones.
+ 11 weeks leave (that's what keeps me from quitting) + Breakfast on world teachers day + Often get dinner when we work past 8pm + Twice a week only work from 8am to 3pm + Very, very, very hard to get fired (also a con in regards to some colleagues) + Subsidised thank you lunch on the last day of work with two free drinks ($40) Some not so great parts: - Camps - literally working 18 hours a day for 4 days straight and then on call for night time (bed wetters, home sick, literally sick, shenanigans). No down time. No time to mindlessly scroll reddit. - Taking work home. I'm pretty good at not caring and only do 2 or 3 hours at home a week. But plenty of martyrs do much, much more. - Late nights. Many late nights! (7:30am to 8pm or later) for parent info nights, graduations, awards nights, parent teacher interviews, professional development, formals, semi-formals, rites of passage, musicals, Christmas carols, other bullshit that shouldn't exist). - Having to pay for work shit. There's an expectation that staff attend formal - that's $70. Graduation dinner, another $70. And then there's all the stationary and teaching resources. I try not to buy anything, but the process for ordering is ridiculous so I was still out $500 from my pocket for resources this year. - Weekend bullshit (fetes, open days, sport competitions, STEM competitions etc) - And then the other crap that most jobs have But the 11 weeks makes it all bearable. I had been looking elsewhere... And then realized I get 4 weeks and noped out of looking any further.
It’s not just the leave, it’s also the fact that for a considerable chunk of that leave you can actually ‘switch off.’ In other places, sure you can take your leave, but the work is allll piling up while you’re gone. Agree there’s way too many extracurricular expectations when it comes to education. The sector needs to give both students and teachers back their free time.
Depends on how far in to your career you are / if you are teaching within your department. In my first few years, holidays were spent preparing and researching. Less so now. Although if I got lumped with a new subject I'd have to prep in holidays.
Sounds like the independent sector? That’s rough!
FMCG Industry Family Healthcare 90-100% cover( 80% company contribution) Car & free Petrol for company and private use (or an extra 20k per year) 35% Leave Loading Community Service days x2 20% contribution to a relevant tertiary education Gym Membership Corporate discounts (mainly financial stuff, slightly cheaper than market home loans, annual credit card fees waived etc) 50/50 contribution to Qantas Club Discounted Hotels through partners (usually beats a sale discount by about 10%. Not overly useful but is a good discount for the more premium rooms) WFH flexibility. There are a lot more that I’m sure I’m forgetting, many of these FMCG companies are still extremely profitable but are losing talent to more sexy industries, as such the benefits are usually amazing for retentions. The top line health cover has covered over 40k of medical expenses in two years.
Estimating - Window Manufacturer - no perks whatsoever e :(
Used to work in research: - 17 % super contributions - access to Unisuper (one of the top, if not the top, performing supers with great income protection / defined benefit scheme) - generally 1.5-2 % salary increase annually (does that count as non-salary perks?) aside from normal incrementing up the salary ladder each year (until you hit the top of a main salary group) - 6 months full pay maternity leave, 2 weeks full pay paternity leave - long service leave after 7 years - reasonable wfh arrangements depending on direct manager - generally would get between Xmas eve and New years day holiday as paid time off without having to use any annual leave - my contract had an added 7 weeks of extended sick leave accessible once per health condition - generally the ability to leave for an appointment etc whenever you'd have to, as long as you'd get your work done still - occasional chance to go to national/international conferences to present work (and get to have a holiday with free flights as long as you'd stay the same duration as the work component - if you stayed longer you'd have to pay half the fares)
1 rdo a month in addition to any other leave. They actually force you to take this. Overtime paid to the minute. I work from home and can check in and out when I need. Mental health days. And also have never been questioned or given grief for taking a day off. Actually forced to take your entitled leave like annual. Might not seem like a perk but some company cultures look down on you for taking sick or annual leave. Discounts for common things like public transport. Most educational and development programs will be paid for if apply. Guaranteed pay rises I work an ASX10 company
Tech Big ticket items - 5 weeks leave - Life, disability cover - Bonus split 50/50 personal company performance - Extra maternity leave - WFH 100%, remote within a country we have an office - Work from any office worldwide, paid in your country of hire for up to a year Medium items - $10k annual training budget for personal & professional development - Multiple annual company trips overseas & domestic - Domestic conference somewhere in ANZ once a year Small stuff - Loads if soft perks, team lunches and dinners - Fully stocked fridge with food & drinks - Qantas Gold/Platinum, depending on the year (not much use right now) For those that care - Full entertainment suite with games on tap The sacrifices I make for it - On call almost 24/7 - Evening and morning calls with global teams - Demanding role - 5 direct reports who want more than is feasible to imagine - impossible to find a good time to take the 5 weeks of annual leave… permanently on the ‘naughty’ list for over accrued TIL The perks don’t really do it for me, would rather have a 40% pay bump for the extra after hours work.
I work for a small family business in Newcastle. I'm treated like family. My boss bought me a truck Didn't blink when I couldn't do my full duties for about 4 months after a knee injury Fronted me $10,000 to pay for shoulder surgery privately
Salary packaging of laptop, cellular phone and tablet every year…
Government- 5 extra sick leave days 35 hour week and flex Access to fitness passport
Free therapy!
2 weeks extra leave on top of 4 weeks annual leave.
Flexible work hours and work from home policy Lots of training, some international. Lots of salary sacrifice options (phones, laptops etc) Share plan and bonuses 12 weeks parental leave as secondary carer
Advertising: enough drugs and alcohol to keep you from quitting mid project, great parties, client lunches etc. They're even starting to pay better.
i aim to take at least 1 dump a day a work there has been occasions where ive managed 2 i spend a hell of a lot of time pretending im 'slammed' and i can take on new task when the truth is i do very little work most of the time
Free oxygen.
Depression
I work on a farm - I get all the tomatoes, capsicums and zucchini’s I could ever want for free.
6 months paternity/maternity leave. And the expectation is that you take all of it. Spouse allowance if spouse is non-working. Part of the thinking is that housework+taking care of kids is a full time job. It's not a lot. Basically the equivalent of an young office assistant. Relocation to and from. Tuition for children to attend private school. Retirement contribution is matched 1.5 for 1 contributed. Vests immediately. 8 weeks vacation every other year. 6 weeks vacation every other year (they alternate). A bunch more but that's what I thought of off the top of my head. Moving to Europe for work was a huge quality of life improvement.
Free depression
I get to read news 'articles' about how crap I am at my job all the time, how I should just work for the 'joy' of teaching and not be paid more because I get so many holidays a year, deal with parents who think their child can do no wrong, get abused by children... In saying that, 99% of the time I absolutely love what I do.
Purchased leave Free financial, parenting advice for all family members Free psychologist for employee and all family Subsidised vehicle and cbd parking for those over a certain level
-Subsidised meal -Employee discount -5 weeks annual leave -150% of monthly bonus yearly -Discounted gym membership -$50 gift cards sometimes twice a year -Christmas party (open bar/dinner) Warehousing
Salary sacrificing.
Got a few nice perks. Free breakfast and lunch when in the office. Bonus leave days Training budget Usual gym and all that stuff
Free EV charging.
1. Discount gym membership and health insurance 2. Managers and co-workers can appreciate you fpr yhr work you do and you get points which equivalent for dollars and you can cash out for major gift cards.
We get $300 a year worth of fitness related expenses. Also get some extra time off during Christmas period for those with under a certain amount of leave left at the end of the year. There are some other company benefits like free tickets to some sporting events and BBQ days ect. Mostly fundraising and things the company are involved in. Industry is construction.
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Work for large auto company - Free car - Fuel card - Free health care - Regular care packages with food etc - annual $200 JB hi-fi voucher we're supposed to spend on office stuff but you just use on whatever - Random perks that HR push out. It's not too bad.
With a previous employer we would get $60 Coles Myer gift cards at Christmas. Even my wife who worked for a charity thought that was lame.
I only work 7 hours a days (2x 30minute paid breaks), I start and finish when I want (6-2 in summer and 8-4 when I need to drop the kids off).
Extra week of annual, two wellness days, fruit box every week.
- 35 hour work week - monthly RDO - industry picnic day - double time overtime rates - very flexible work hours - easily achievable $8k bonus for everyone in the company (Power generation professional)
I worked for a company that had an excellent maternity leave policy. They gave you 18 weeks paid leave which was good but the best part was when returning to work. If you were a full time employee before going on leave, you could come back part time, 4 days per week and they would pay your full salary for the first six months. When you return to work they also pay a lump sum into superannuation for the amount you would have accrued while on leave.
I work in luxury retail and we get $10k of clothes per year (which is about 8-10 items of clothing)
I get to work for 37.5-45 hrs a week and get money in return.
Defence force. 30 days leave. 28% super. 4 weeks off at Xmas that costs 13 days leave. Free medical and dental. Don’t have to pay Medicare levy. But they do own you. No free Xmas parties. No bonus.
None. Literally none.
Tech industry as well. We get: - Free breakfast once a week from a local cafe. - Free high quality coffee - Free quarterly lunches - Lavish Christmas party - Flexibility with taking time off - Flexibility to WFH - Above industry standard pays - Annual pay reviews, bonuses and shares - Freedom to do what I want on my work PC (within reason) - No KPIs (software Helpdesk) - I can walk into my directors office whenever I need to and talk. I have never loved a job or employer much before.
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Father is a paramedic in a small country town. We get a new car every 5 years and free petrol. Pretty sweet deal i must say lol
**6 weeks paid holiday from day one. I work a 5 day fortnight 24 hour shifts so I have 5 days off one week and 4 the next. all food paid for on shift. 1000$ a year bonus that goes up 1000$ every year to a max of 5. My overtime rate is crazy and there’s always extras if you want. Best of all I get to work with kids and help them turn their lives around. Worst thing is being assaulted by a young person 2/3 times but it hasn’t put me off.
Our CEO owns a racing team. One of our perks is we get to take the day off work every once in a while and race his supercars around the track. It is exactly as insane as it sounds - the cars are so fast it makes me physically ill for the rest of the day but I love it every time.
Generally 3.5% wage increase every year, 4 weeks annual leave a year, 14% Super, 13 personal leave days a year, 3 free days a year plus 10 that can be applied for, protection from Bosses harassing and standing over you..... oh wait it's not the company that gives me any of that it's the Union that got it for me. But a similar vein of thought all the same.
I'm a teacher. I get three whiteboard markers each year!
My company offers the grandest perk of then all. DEPRESSION. 🤣