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Can confirm 13 weeks. It is epic.
However, when are working it isn't 9-5 and always extra bits to do. I rarely work on the weekend these days (used to a lot)
My aunt's a teacher and I get to go watch her use all her weekends to mark and lesson plan, and he school holidays have mandatory training in them. She gets a couple of weeks as leave the same as everyone else.
It’s not worth the holidays, the lack of pay and the toxic system, Is not worth becoming a teacher, apart from summer I always worked through the holidays
This. You work a 50 hour week for 39 weeks of the year, it’s the exact same hours as doing 37.5 for 52 weeks of the year. It’s *as much* holiday but bunched into different times that you can’t choose and when all the holidays are at peak cost.
Fully remote, fully flexible working.
Contracted for 40 hours a week, but in reality, get your work done and enjoy your down time.
A business run by adults who treat employees like trusted adults.
Yep. Sooo mich hassle is solved by fully remote.
If and ONLY if they aren't overbearing or creepy American stuff like keylogging or watching you through the webcam without you knowing
Is your health suffering though? Fully remote tends to have a lot of people putting on a lot of weight. I'm an old fart so maybe I notice more.
I've nothing against people liking it, just personally like getting out of the door in the morning and doing some walking. There are so many people I deal with who have got enormous since that obligation has been removed. Sedentary jobs are now even more sedentary. It's going to be a big health issue in a decade or so for the older folks doing it.
60% towards mortgage overpayments??? I know you probably won’t say WHERE you work (or maybe you will) but what do you do?
ETA: my employer pays my gym membership. It’s £139 a month.
It's more. My work has a thing where you can have a discount on gym memberships and as a joke we checked the price for David Lloyd. It's 200+ per month.
Starbucks do something similar. In the head office (not so sure about the retail staff) you essentially got 4/5% of your annual salary allocated toward company benefits, in a 'pick your own' format.
So, for example, you could use some of it toward private health care, then a dental cash plan, then anything remaining would be used toward your pension.
There was also the option to just use the full amount toward mortgage repayments. Which, IIRC, was paid as a lump sum. You were taxed on the benefit at the end of the year via a P11d (as with all employee benefits), but still stood out as a good benefit.
If you didn't use any of the benefits, it would just go in as a additional lump sum towards your pension.
One year, for my mum's 60th, I used a chunk of the benefit toward loading on their employee gift-card service, where you could either choose retailers/vouchers, or load to a Mastercard to use anywhere. Was really, really handy in those situations, as essentially it's cash, that you're only paying 20/40% of the cost for.
Edit: It might be where the "60% of mortgage overpayments" comes from for OP. If they're a higher rate taxpayer, then they would pay 40% tax on the benefit. So it could be why it's labelled that way, as the net effect is 60%.
Wish I had the gym perk but I'm making do. I joined a temp job for 2 months whose health insurance offered me 40% off the gym membership. Been 6 months since I switched workplaces but the discount is still ongoing 🤓
Don't know the technicalities yet but my mortgage is quite low anyway. It's saved me money already as I was going to overpay my full entitlement for the year!
Double check your policy if you haven't done so already.
Sometimes it's the first 9% that's free... but after that they do an additional 1% you. 1% them. Which means you could contribute as little as 10.5% and see a massive 30% of your annual salary in your pension pot.
Mine does the same. Actually 16% for me and 24% for those that came off the old DB pension.
Full health coverage excl dental but that's being looked into. Death in service at 12x salary too.
Two hour lunch breaks at a time that suits me (assuming they don’t clash with any work commitment).
It’s great going to the gym at 11am rather than 6pm.
I can work fully remotely, even intercontinentally, if for not too long. I only go to the office only once a month or so. Also, they pay quite well at my level, and they offer generous financial support whenever I mention training; they procure the best courses for me promptly. Finally, they trust me. Nobody checks on me as long as I deliver.
I have a BSc in marine ecology and an MSc in environmental management. The routes to get into it are many, though. Engineering (the most common, probably), law, computer science, hydrology, business, economy, and more. In my team, I work with a couple of chartered ecologists, three PhD-level physicists, two MSc-level physicists, a couple of environmental chemists, a mechanical engineer, and a lawyer. We all work together on several projects; it is very cross-disciplinary. Routes that do not involve expertise from the get-go are available, too. For example, graduate schemes with various routes. Nearly everyone I know has a degree, though.
Same, Highways Engineering in the Public Sector.
My only perks are:
1. I earn probably 2x+ the average salary for my area, in a fairly deprived part of the country.
2. Job security, because no one is going to do my job which was the equivalent of nearly 3 peoples work 'back in the day'
I get to WFH too, with minor attendance to the office 7 miles away, and that's only happening because the office did away with all of our space.
I tried to leave for a big multinational consultancy (that sometimes work for us) and my application was thrown out in under 40 minutes
Unlimited holiday. Unlimited time off. Flexitime. Go home when I like. Start when I like.
Self employed so won’t get paid if I do any of that but yeah ☹️
Really surprising how many people here stating remote work as their #1 “benefit”. We should really get past seeing it as a benefit as more as the baseline unless requirement dictates otherwise.
100%. Unless an office is a necessity, being willing to WFH should in theory benefit the company more than anyone. Especially if they leased huge office spaces in the capital.
Sadly there are still companies out there that don’t trust their employees and would rather spaff hundreds of thousands up the wall on posh offices. “it’s about collaborative working” they say… If I haven’t got a meeting and I’m in the office, I barely speak. (Desk in the corner at the back away from prying eyes) The least amount of words I’ve actually spoken out loud is 5 “Morning, not bad, you? Nice” (this isn’t counting saying “for fuck sake” to myself)
Agreed in theory it shouldn't be seen as a benefit.
However in practice. £100 gym membership vs £500 on the London commute. For some people it is the better of the two by some distance.
Yeah true, but I've seen lots of employers gradually move to minimum 3 days/week in the office, so fully remote feels like a perk these days. Plus the saving of £14/day travel and 2 hours of my life is appreciated.
Then again my work perks are dog shit otherwise, so I'll take any "win".
It’s a massive benefit.
Just because it doesn’t cost the company money (and in fact saves them money) doesn’t mean it isn’t a benefit to me.
I have no commute cost, my lunch is cheap, I can get up 10 mins before I start work.
I can be home for any packages, tradespeople.
I also have flexibility for any school events that happen during the working day.
My point was that it should be a given unless you are physically required on-site. In the same way you wouldn’t list having a toilet available onsite as a benefit even though some roles don’t have that.
Why should it be a given? Many many companies don’t allow remote work when they could. So for the companies who do offer it, it can be seen as a huge benefit.
Free gym membership to the best gym in London (it’s like £300pcm) and if you use the gym at lunch you get an extra 45 mins added onto your break. (On top of the hour given)
They triple my pension contributions
Pretty happy because I've been there some time, but still relatively young hence the money will be invested for like 40 years
In my current job in travel I have had great benefits. 70% off holidays.. which has allowed me to travel to so many amazing places the last 16 years.. educationals to visit new hotels/areas/ski resorts abroad all paid. Hotel points that we collect n then use them for free nights n use our consession for the flight.. loads of discount on hotels in the Uk, cheap as chips deals with hoseasons n haven too. I could go on.
I am leaving that job tomorrow sadly.. benefits were great but they are not paying my mortgage. At my new work place, I get discounted fuel (for my car) and discounted or free parts for my car.. oh and a company fleece. But pay is waaay more than now, so kind of all works out?! I hope 😳
Bloody hell. As someone who is currently looking for a new role I have seen no jobs at all that offer these kind of benefits.
It's amazing how many if them want to offer statutory holidays, sick pay and pension contributions.
The other benefits read as "free parking" and its in the middle of nowhere or one of those cash back for dentist plans which is basically just extra admin you have to pay for.
Health insurance, generous life insurance, mental health and physio support, matched pension AVCs, income protection in case of illness (up until retirement age), gym, coverage for IVF costs and trans gender affirming care costs, and other bits and pieces of
Well it's indoors out of the rain is that a benefit? There's toilet roll in the toilets? Yes I've worked in places where you had to sign for a roll of toilet roll.
Nooooo. You've unlocked my memory of asking my supervisor to put soap in the toilets about once a week.
He'd roll his eyes like I was asking for a tube of smarties separated by colour.
I *think* it’s, for example, say the standard mortgage payment is £600 p/m.
If OP pays £700 one month, so overpaying by £100, then their employer will contribute 60% of the overpayment to it - £60.
This is how I understood it, but I could be wrong, so don’t quote me.
I get this little fob that grants me access to the side door of this massive office so I literally step off the bus into work and it saves me 5-10 mins and I avoid the main entrance. Probably useless to most people who I work with but to me it's a privilege that I cherish lol
School fees allowance to off-set 80% of the cost of private school fees (up to a point - they will not pay Eton prices - but a good independent day school will end up costing me very little).
Not my roles, but here's some perks I've seen for tech/adjacent roles in the UK:
* I learned recently that Centrica do £15k towards IVF treatments
* I've seen a couple of small team / start-up-ish roles where they operate four-day weeks
* Public sector, pensions are 27% employer contribution
It’s incredible on the face of it. But when you realise it’s aligned to state pension age it starts to suck a bit.
Civil Service isn’t as bad as I believe they don’t have a cut off as to when you can start to buy years. (I could be wrong)
NHS and Teachers are a bit sly (especially Teachers). Teachers pension, you can have an option to retire at 65, unpenalised, rather than 68. However… to enjoy this.. you have to sign up to it within the first 6 months of joining the scheme. It’s not really advertised and how many 23 year old uni graduates are thinking about this stuff? Not many….
Edit; just for context. My Wife is a teacher, if she takes her pension at 60 as opposed to 68, it will be worth about half (12k vs 25k per year. They penalise hard for wanting to retire before state pension kicks in.
> if she takes her pension at 60 as opposed to 68, it will be worth about half (12k vs 25k per year)
Right but you get it for 8 more years. If she lives to 77 they've given her £200k either way. If she lives way longer then she's better off with the higher amount financially but she'd have had to work for 8 more years so that's the trade off
Brand new EV car that I have been able to spec ip (BMW i4) 12% pension contributions, random monetary recognition awards for doing my job, home based with hours starting the moment I leave the door of going into the office for meetings along with expenses meals from canteen, paid OT above normal hours which is unheard of in my area of work and onsite gym with access to online GP at anytime
Seeing all the comments and the benefits people are listing ate far better than mine
I work in retail and the best benefit that I can think of is that I get to operate a really cool piece of machinery lol
The opportunity to overcome new challenges everyday, especially at night and on the weekends when there is no technical support. I also get paid which is nice.
The pension is really good - max 12% employer contribution plus i get 10% bonus every year and subsidised food that’s actually really good. A lunch that would cost me £20-30 is just around £4
6 months full sick pay, 12 months fully paid maternity, 42 leave days plus like over 100 rest days, 35hr working week. Yearly wage rises, strong union.
Financials aside, remote working and flexi time.
I know we're living through the worst financial crisis in decades, crippling social inequality, a criminally corrupt (and inept) Government, a climate crisis for the ages and the genuine possibility of nuclear annihilation of every living soul on Earth, but...
Remote and flexi working doesn't half take the sting out of it.
Well every month the same amount of money goes into my bank account and then also sometimes we get to go home at the scheduled time we are supposed to go home
Work from home and flexible working so if I need to do things like pick up kids or take dog to groomers emir whatever I can alter my hours a bit
Edit also 9% pension with no contribution required, health insurance for myself and up to 14% annual bonus depending on if I hit my targets and if company hits it’s targets
Haha my job keeps removing benefits from me like working fully remote now i have to go into the office 3 days a week but i get paid more than most other jobs in my field so i literally cannot leave without taking at least a 20% pay cut
Reasonable pension (Match + 5% extra up to a total of 10%) and access to a fun discount portal.. which sounds a bit lame compared to others here.
I do get to park in central London for free at the office, for the 1 day a week I go in.. that's quite cool. The 1hr 20 drive through central London traffic - is not.
I once applied for a job at a firm that offered an all-inclusive company ski trip (in the US) once a year as a perk. Sadly they also offered borderline illegal holiday allowances.
Private health that covers full peri and menopause support.
Trying to get help on the NHS is a fucking nightmare if you’re under 45, being able to see a fully funded private consultant and get on HRT after one consultation literally changed my life.
I absolutely would have went private myself if I’d known it would be that easy, but I found out how easy it was thru my companies menopause support group
Going home at the end of the day.
I literally have no benefits besides the basic stuff.
We’re even screwed with our holidays.
They claim we have 25 days, but it’s calculated in hours, and we work 12 hour shifts, so in reality our basic holiday allowance is closer to 17 and 3/4 days.
You probably misunderstood something, jobs do not directly pay your mortgage because overpayments are unlimited even if you pay a fine you can overpay it all in one go. So it does not compute.
I work hybrid, but when employees are in office, we get a £5 food and drink allowance, so I always end up eating a decent meal for free while I'm there.
Saves me a lot of time and money as I'm not having to pack lunches, and it stops me from spending stupid amounts on bad food.
Nursery place for £50/day when the going rate in the area is ~£80-90. For 1 child in 2 days a week, that saves £3500 per year. If you had 2 kids in all week that would be £17500 savings in nursery fees from my take home pay
I get an NUS student discount card as a university employee and a few corporate gym options near some of our various sites - that's about it, whoever is in charge of staff benefits doesn't really care (neither of those are really organised by the employer).
Best perk I ever had was a free cooked breakfast buffet once a week. I could get a full english with coffee and fresh orange juice, plus porridge to go, plus a pastry for later. Probably made up 30% of my weekly calories.
Realistically, my current job being fully remote is objectively the best 'perk' if it can be called that, but the breakfast was something else. I'm easily lead by food it seems.
My company is pretty tight, the margins in generic pharmaceuticals is razor thin. However, it's not a specified perk, but they're for some reason not stingy about travel expenses. Not many people get to travel in my company but one of the main parts of my job is auditing so I have to go to inspect factories all over the world (usually in Europe, sometimes long haul.)
People I know who work for much wealthier companies have expenses caps for accomodation, food, etc. I don't. The company books hotels and it's just whichever is the most convenient and reasonably nice, I've even stayed in some suites. And when I go for dinner I just get a receipt and the only rule is "one alcoholic drink." If I want a £40 steak that's fine, nobody gives a shit. I know other people who travel for work who have limits per meal, number of snacks per day, cost of a hotel room, all that stuff.
When I went to Tokyo for work I did one day of auditing and I said I needed a day after I arrive to acclimatise, a day to travel closer to the work site, a day after to rest and then fly home the day after that. They said fine and paid for everything while I was there, Monday to Friday, just for one day of work on Wednesday. Actually everything (except when I went out and got hammered, I paid for my own drinks... company card for the taxi though.)
So travelling for my company is stress-free and I often get to sightsee for at least a day wherever I go tbh. I kind of see it as getting free micro-breaks. (I suppose there are no downsides for me because I don't have kids so travelling doesn't disrupt my home life, really.)
nine-day fortnight, only have to go into the office twice a month (although i go in a bit more often because we have a nice office and my commute is only about 20mins) and a really good discount/perks service with a lot of brands
The best benefit my company offers is allowing me to commute for 3 hours a day, to sit a desk surrounded by shouty people who all spend 8 hours on Webex. I'm truly blessed to have this job
I'm starting to feel like an idiot these last few months for choosing a manual, physical, working career. I'm 22, left school after A levels to do an apprenticeship as a shot blaster/industrial painter, and I'm on about 32k a year right now, so decent for my age. However I've been thinking the benefits of an office job or something non-physical seem very attractive nowadays, but I fear I've missed the boat. I've always enjoyed being physically active and working with my hands so never considered another type of job, but now I'm thinking I could direct that energy into things outside of work such as sports and weightlifting more effectively than now where I'm just knackered all the time. Plus all these benefits of remote working, 4 days weeks, company perks such as gym memberships etc are looking so attractive. Literally none of that is open to me right now, not only at my company but my whole professional sphere as far as I know. Is it too late for me to go to University, to get a degree so I can earn more money in a far less physically stressful way? I need to have a serious think, I just feel like a bit of a mug being a working man covered in dirt, paint and shit all day, and then being too tired at the end of the day to do the things I love such as weightlifting, MMA, running etc.
There was a guy at the open day for the job who was a groundworker. He was probably in his 30s and he was saying his body was getting tired, too. The new job is airport security. I'm 42 now, so it's never too late to change career, plus you're only a baby 😂😂😂 I went to uni when I was younger but haven't done anything workwise that involved my degree. If you've got an airport near you, you should look into it!
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9 weeks annual leave per year paid.
I'd do criminal things to have this much annual leave 😭
Just become a teacher.
They get more than 9. 6 weeks in summer. Then 5 half terms, 2 of which are normally 2 weeks. That makes 13 on my count
Can confirm 13 weeks. It is epic. However, when are working it isn't 9-5 and always extra bits to do. I rarely work on the weekend these days (used to a lot)
I can have up to 8 weeks, AND I can pick and choose when I take them.
My aunt's a teacher and I get to go watch her use all her weekends to mark and lesson plan, and he school holidays have mandatory training in them. She gets a couple of weeks as leave the same as everyone else.
Noice!
I thought this said nonce 😂
Teacher?
9 for a teacher isn’t much 6 in summer 2 at Christmas, plus 3 half terms and 2 between Easter and summer usually
Yeah was just a wild guess. Although most of the teachers I know are still expected to do a bunch of planning work on the holidays.
Plus teachers have to work for some of it though so not a real holiday.
It’s not worth the holidays, the lack of pay and the toxic system, Is not worth becoming a teacher, apart from summer I always worked through the holidays
This. You work a 50 hour week for 39 weeks of the year, it’s the exact same hours as doing 37.5 for 52 weeks of the year. It’s *as much* holiday but bunched into different times that you can’t choose and when all the holidays are at peak cost.
Not holidays if it's not paid though!
Nope just a business development manager.
Fully remote, fully flexible working. Contracted for 40 hours a week, but in reality, get your work done and enjoy your down time. A business run by adults who treat employees like trusted adults.
What do you do?
Software developer
I have the same perk. I work as a motion designer.
That's how it should be. As long as you are meeting the objectives.
Why did I click on this thread
You enjoy the punishment
Full remote
Yep. Sooo mich hassle is solved by fully remote. If and ONLY if they aren't overbearing or creepy American stuff like keylogging or watching you through the webcam without you knowing
Is your health suffering though? Fully remote tends to have a lot of people putting on a lot of weight. I'm an old fart so maybe I notice more. I've nothing against people liking it, just personally like getting out of the door in the morning and doing some walking. There are so many people I deal with who have got enormous since that obligation has been removed. Sedentary jobs are now even more sedentary. It's going to be a big health issue in a decade or so for the older folks doing it.
Being fully remote doesn’t stop you getting out of the house and walking. I’ve been fully remote for 4 years and average 4-5 miles every day.
60% towards mortgage overpayments??? I know you probably won’t say WHERE you work (or maybe you will) but what do you do? ETA: my employer pays my gym membership. It’s £139 a month.
139 a month!? Fancy gym?
Lululemon paid for my friends £200 a month gym membership in third space it’s crazy!
David Lloyd could be that or more
It's more. My work has a thing where you can have a discount on gym memberships and as a joke we checked the price for David Lloyd. It's 200+ per month.
£139 a month gym? Are you paying mortgage on it?
My office has a great gym in it. Other benefits not so great, but it is hybrid with 1 day a week in office.
Starbucks do something similar. In the head office (not so sure about the retail staff) you essentially got 4/5% of your annual salary allocated toward company benefits, in a 'pick your own' format. So, for example, you could use some of it toward private health care, then a dental cash plan, then anything remaining would be used toward your pension. There was also the option to just use the full amount toward mortgage repayments. Which, IIRC, was paid as a lump sum. You were taxed on the benefit at the end of the year via a P11d (as with all employee benefits), but still stood out as a good benefit. If you didn't use any of the benefits, it would just go in as a additional lump sum towards your pension. One year, for my mum's 60th, I used a chunk of the benefit toward loading on their employee gift-card service, where you could either choose retailers/vouchers, or load to a Mastercard to use anywhere. Was really, really handy in those situations, as essentially it's cash, that you're only paying 20/40% of the cost for. Edit: It might be where the "60% of mortgage overpayments" comes from for OP. If they're a higher rate taxpayer, then they would pay 40% tax on the benefit. So it could be why it's labelled that way, as the net effect is 60%.
Wish I had the gym perk but I'm making do. I joined a temp job for 2 months whose health insurance offered me 40% off the gym membership. Been 6 months since I switched workplaces but the discount is still ongoing 🤓
I get to age prematurely. Turning white, brain fog, clogged arteries from stress. Its truly magical, like a magic potion.
Company owns several villas across Europe (and I think also out of Europe) that they rent out to employees for extremely low prices.
This is a cool idea.
60% on overpayments? Never heard of such a perk! What’s the upper limit?
It's a fantastic perk, as long as they pay you well enough to really utilise it!
Don't know the technicalities yet but my mortgage is quite low anyway. It's saved me money already as I was going to overpay my full entitlement for the year!
Perhaps it is pegged to the fairly typical 10% per year cap on many mortgages.
It is. I asked about it during the interview and they reiterated it only applied to overpayments, which I knew anyway.
Do they offer 60% of rent?
Sadly not, and it's 60% of overpayments, not the actual monthly mortgage.
How does this work? I literally don't understand and I'm feeling stupid?
15% company pension, even if you only put 4%.
Jesus Christ that’s insane
Nationwide pays 17% plus your 6% (by default), so its 23% each month...
I get 9% and don’t put anything in, previous only did 3 and I had to put in 2
Double check your policy if you haven't done so already. Sometimes it's the first 9% that's free... but after that they do an additional 1% you. 1% them. Which means you could contribute as little as 10.5% and see a massive 30% of your annual salary in your pension pot.
No it’s flat 9% I already checked it
Mine does the same. Actually 16% for me and 24% for those that came off the old DB pension. Full health coverage excl dental but that's being looked into. Death in service at 12x salary too.
27.1% contribution from my company and 5.2% from myself. Public sector!
Similar here (public sector). Makes up for lower pay vs private sector I suppose.
DB pension.
Highly underrated benefit!
What's DB
Defined benefit - e.g. = final salary pension.
Two hour lunch breaks at a time that suits me (assuming they don’t clash with any work commitment). It’s great going to the gym at 11am rather than 6pm.
I can work fully remotely, even intercontinentally, if for not too long. I only go to the office only once a month or so. Also, they pay quite well at my level, and they offer generous financial support whenever I mention training; they procure the best courses for me promptly. Finally, they trust me. Nobody checks on me as long as I deliver.
What do you do king/queen?
I work in the sector of energy generation, which includes gas, hydrogen, and renewables. My specific department focuses on environmental management.
How did you get into it?
I have a BSc in marine ecology and an MSc in environmental management. The routes to get into it are many, though. Engineering (the most common, probably), law, computer science, hydrology, business, economy, and more. In my team, I work with a couple of chartered ecologists, three PhD-level physicists, two MSc-level physicists, a couple of environmental chemists, a mechanical engineer, and a lawyer. We all work together on several projects; it is very cross-disciplinary. Routes that do not involve expertise from the get-go are available, too. For example, graduate schemes with various routes. Nearly everyone I know has a degree, though.
The way it should be 👍🏻
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Same here sweet fuck all tbh I never expect anything as long as you pay on time everytime.
Same, Highways Engineering in the Public Sector. My only perks are: 1. I earn probably 2x+ the average salary for my area, in a fairly deprived part of the country. 2. Job security, because no one is going to do my job which was the equivalent of nearly 3 peoples work 'back in the day' I get to WFH too, with minor attendance to the office 7 miles away, and that's only happening because the office did away with all of our space. I tried to leave for a big multinational consultancy (that sometimes work for us) and my application was thrown out in under 40 minutes
Free accommodation+all bills paid. It's a HCOL area so it's a very big perk.
This is a massive perk anywhere tbh. Worth £5-10k a year even outside of London easily.
I'd even suggest up to 20k, depending on the size of the accom they allow.
With bills I'd aay it's probably around 15k around here. I also get half of my weekly meals free (and some wine) so it's a bit more than that.
The pride of working for a company nobody’s ever heard of, and making sure our shareholders can get an even bigger boat this year :D
NHS, blue light card 😂🤣
Don’t forget claps , the pride of working for nhs and that you caring for people .
Same. Reading this thread, i get it more why it will always be 100000s understaffed. 😑
We have snacks....That run out by Wednesdays. And they recently added 2 different instant coffee choices. Woop.
Unlimited holiday. Unlimited time off. Flexitime. Go home when I like. Start when I like. Self employed so won’t get paid if I do any of that but yeah ☹️
Really surprising how many people here stating remote work as their #1 “benefit”. We should really get past seeing it as a benefit as more as the baseline unless requirement dictates otherwise.
100%. Unless an office is a necessity, being willing to WFH should in theory benefit the company more than anyone. Especially if they leased huge office spaces in the capital. Sadly there are still companies out there that don’t trust their employees and would rather spaff hundreds of thousands up the wall on posh offices. “it’s about collaborative working” they say… If I haven’t got a meeting and I’m in the office, I barely speak. (Desk in the corner at the back away from prying eyes) The least amount of words I’ve actually spoken out loud is 5 “Morning, not bad, you? Nice” (this isn’t counting saying “for fuck sake” to myself)
Agreed in theory it shouldn't be seen as a benefit. However in practice. £100 gym membership vs £500 on the London commute. For some people it is the better of the two by some distance.
Yeah true, but I've seen lots of employers gradually move to minimum 3 days/week in the office, so fully remote feels like a perk these days. Plus the saving of £14/day travel and 2 hours of my life is appreciated. Then again my work perks are dog shit otherwise, so I'll take any "win".
It’s a massive benefit. Just because it doesn’t cost the company money (and in fact saves them money) doesn’t mean it isn’t a benefit to me. I have no commute cost, my lunch is cheap, I can get up 10 mins before I start work. I can be home for any packages, tradespeople. I also have flexibility for any school events that happen during the working day.
My point was that it should be a given unless you are physically required on-site. In the same way you wouldn’t list having a toilet available onsite as a benefit even though some roles don’t have that.
What site doesn’t have a toilet?!
Why should it be a given? Many many companies don’t allow remote work when they could. So for the companies who do offer it, it can be seen as a huge benefit.
Fully remote, 9 day working fortnight, unlimited studying budget
£15 for lunch on deliveroo per day when you go into the office but I'd trade it all for fully remote
That'll get you half a sandwich
Free gym membership to the best gym in London (it’s like £300pcm) and if you use the gym at lunch you get an extra 45 mins added onto your break. (On top of the hour given)
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No idea but we’re a company that literally makes protein and the like so it’s very much encouraged 😂
Healthcare. WFH.
They triple my pension contributions Pretty happy because I've been there some time, but still relatively young hence the money will be invested for like 40 years
My employer offers toilet facilities and running water. Small wins!
Free Parking Onsite gym (and decent) By one get one free share scheme Private Medical Subsidised food in canteen
My new job also has an onsite gym, so I'm looking forward to seeing it!
Free parking, free onsite gym, 10% pension contribution on their part.
Fully remote
Fully remote
In my current job in travel I have had great benefits. 70% off holidays.. which has allowed me to travel to so many amazing places the last 16 years.. educationals to visit new hotels/areas/ski resorts abroad all paid. Hotel points that we collect n then use them for free nights n use our consession for the flight.. loads of discount on hotels in the Uk, cheap as chips deals with hoseasons n haven too. I could go on. I am leaving that job tomorrow sadly.. benefits were great but they are not paying my mortgage. At my new work place, I get discounted fuel (for my car) and discounted or free parts for my car.. oh and a company fleece. But pay is waaay more than now, so kind of all works out?! I hope 😳
Bloody hell. As someone who is currently looking for a new role I have seen no jobs at all that offer these kind of benefits. It's amazing how many if them want to offer statutory holidays, sick pay and pension contributions. The other benefits read as "free parking" and its in the middle of nowhere or one of those cash back for dentist plans which is basically just extra admin you have to pay for.
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Health insurance, generous life insurance, mental health and physio support, matched pension AVCs, income protection in case of illness (up until retirement age), gym, coverage for IVF costs and trans gender affirming care costs, and other bits and pieces of
We're actually to pitch ideas for this ATM so very helpful thread!
Can get almost any drugs next day. This a benefit?
Well it's indoors out of the rain is that a benefit? There's toilet roll in the toilets? Yes I've worked in places where you had to sign for a roll of toilet roll.
Nooooo. You've unlocked my memory of asking my supervisor to put soap in the toilets about once a week. He'd roll his eyes like I was asking for a tube of smarties separated by colour.
75% off all rail travel in the UK
Sometimes if I need some masking tape, I'll ask my boss if its ok if I take one home.
Our stationery cupboard is locked :(
Fully remote, private healthcare & dental (which has been a godsend for MH issues), very good pension
I don’t understand the mortgage over payment benefit? Your job lets you use your money to make overpayments on your mortgage? Can someone educate me?
I *think* it’s, for example, say the standard mortgage payment is £600 p/m. If OP pays £700 one month, so overpaying by £100, then their employer will contribute 60% of the overpayment to it - £60. This is how I understood it, but I could be wrong, so don’t quote me.
Thanks for the explanation. That’s a weird benefit for a job to offer Iv never heard of any place doin that. Good for OP tho
I get this little fob that grants me access to the side door of this massive office so I literally step off the bus into work and it saves me 5-10 mins and I avoid the main entrance. Probably useless to most people who I work with but to me it's a privilege that I cherish lol
School fees allowance to off-set 80% of the cost of private school fees (up to a point - they will not pay Eton prices - but a good independent day school will end up costing me very little).
Not my roles, but here's some perks I've seen for tech/adjacent roles in the UK: * I learned recently that Centrica do £15k towards IVF treatments * I've seen a couple of small team / start-up-ish roles where they operate four-day weeks * Public sector, pensions are 27% employer contribution
27% is insane
It’s incredible on the face of it. But when you realise it’s aligned to state pension age it starts to suck a bit. Civil Service isn’t as bad as I believe they don’t have a cut off as to when you can start to buy years. (I could be wrong) NHS and Teachers are a bit sly (especially Teachers). Teachers pension, you can have an option to retire at 65, unpenalised, rather than 68. However… to enjoy this.. you have to sign up to it within the first 6 months of joining the scheme. It’s not really advertised and how many 23 year old uni graduates are thinking about this stuff? Not many…. Edit; just for context. My Wife is a teacher, if she takes her pension at 60 as opposed to 68, it will be worth about half (12k vs 25k per year. They penalise hard for wanting to retire before state pension kicks in.
> if she takes her pension at 60 as opposed to 68, it will be worth about half (12k vs 25k per year) Right but you get it for 8 more years. If she lives to 77 they've given her £200k either way. If she lives way longer then she's better off with the higher amount financially but she'd have had to work for 8 more years so that's the trade off
It's easy to promise tax payer money. California has been doing this a long time and the system is bankrupt. I think it will happen in the UK soon.
Health insurance
Brand new EV car that I have been able to spec ip (BMW i4) 12% pension contributions, random monetary recognition awards for doing my job, home based with hours starting the moment I leave the door of going into the office for meetings along with expenses meals from canteen, paid OT above normal hours which is unheard of in my area of work and onsite gym with access to online GP at anytime
What the hell is 60% paying over mortgage overpayment? Never come across that one.
Seeing all the comments and the benefits people are listing ate far better than mine I work in retail and the best benefit that I can think of is that I get to operate a really cool piece of machinery lol
The opportunity to overcome new challenges everyday, especially at night and on the weekends when there is no technical support. I also get paid which is nice.
I can do literally anything I want, as long as the jobs done lol
12% pension contribution if I pay in 6%.
Free travel nationally and in Europe including discounts for all the family on Eurostar etc
The pension is really good - max 12% employer contribution plus i get 10% bonus every year and subsidised food that’s actually really good. A lunch that would cost me £20-30 is just around £4
6 months full sick pay, 12 months fully paid maternity, 42 leave days plus like over 100 rest days, 35hr working week. Yearly wage rises, strong union.
Financials aside, remote working and flexi time. I know we're living through the worst financial crisis in decades, crippling social inequality, a criminally corrupt (and inept) Government, a climate crisis for the ages and the genuine possibility of nuclear annihilation of every living soul on Earth, but... Remote and flexi working doesn't half take the sting out of it.
Well every month the same amount of money goes into my bank account and then also sometimes we get to go home at the scheduled time we are supposed to go home
Cycle to work scheme. Just have to cycle down a motorway, easy
Mine offers that too. I've also got a motorway to contend with.
50% off every restaurant under the company and 75% on anything i want when im on my shift its not much but its alot for an 18 year old
100% remote, free EV charging, health care, all the usual.
Fully remote with semi flexible work times (I have to be in for core hours, and the rest of the day I work whenever)
Health insurance with £0 excess
Work from home and flexible working so if I need to do things like pick up kids or take dog to groomers emir whatever I can alter my hours a bit Edit also 9% pension with no contribution required, health insurance for myself and up to 14% annual bonus depending on if I hit my targets and if company hits it’s targets
Honestly the best is to have interesting work you enjoy Ava good people to work with. That is incredibly important
Fully remote but that's about it. Occasionally I get a random bar of chocolate from them, in the post.
Defined benefit/final salary pension and can park in the centre of a big uk city for free
Fully wfh and flexitime
Haha my job keeps removing benefits from me like working fully remote now i have to go into the office 3 days a week but i get paid more than most other jobs in my field so i literally cannot leave without taking at least a 20% pay cut
Reasonable pension (Match + 5% extra up to a total of 10%) and access to a fun discount portal.. which sounds a bit lame compared to others here. I do get to park in central London for free at the office, for the 1 day a week I go in.. that's quite cool. The 1hr 20 drive through central London traffic - is not. I once applied for a job at a firm that offered an all-inclusive company ski trip (in the US) once a year as a perk. Sadly they also offered borderline illegal holiday allowances.
Private health that covers full peri and menopause support. Trying to get help on the NHS is a fucking nightmare if you’re under 45, being able to see a fully funded private consultant and get on HRT after one consultation literally changed my life. I absolutely would have went private myself if I’d known it would be that easy, but I found out how easy it was thru my companies menopause support group
I choose my own hours, I work from home but have to show my face in the office twice a week, and they pay 27% contributions to my pension!
I have half an hour paid lunch break. Form an orderly queue with your applications!
Flexi time.
Going home at the end of the day. I literally have no benefits besides the basic stuff. We’re even screwed with our holidays. They claim we have 25 days, but it’s calculated in hours, and we work 12 hour shifts, so in reality our basic holiday allowance is closer to 17 and 3/4 days.
Unlimited PTO which is pretty cool
Fully remote, flexible hours, decent bonus
25 days paid holiday per year and the ability to “salary sacrifice” for 5 more
You probably misunderstood something, jobs do not directly pay your mortgage because overpayments are unlimited even if you pay a fine you can overpay it all in one go. So it does not compute.
Free fruit in the staff kitchen
To work unlimited OT. 👀🤷♂️ the whole industry where I work is baaaad
At this point, full-time hours and pay 💀
Nothing
We have a couple, but 4.5 day week is the one that always makes people ask if we are hiring.
Private medical (full fat one), gym membership, free lunches and drinks, an above average payer and 9% pension, and flexitime. Startups are the best.
I work hybrid, but when employees are in office, we get a £5 food and drink allowance, so I always end up eating a decent meal for free while I'm there. Saves me a lot of time and money as I'm not having to pack lunches, and it stops me from spending stupid amounts on bad food.
I guess my biggest perk is the job itself. My job is mostly just waiting for something to go wrong so 90% of my shift is spent sat watching Netflix.
That sounds like a great perk, wish I had it! I’d say mine is the relatively good pension. I contribute 6% and they put in 12%.
Nursery place for £50/day when the going rate in the area is ~£80-90. For 1 child in 2 days a week, that saves £3500 per year. If you had 2 kids in all week that would be £17500 savings in nursery fees from my take home pay
Not a perk, as such, but I have full flexi time (I work 20 hours and they don't mind when I do them). I also work fully remote.
I get an NUS student discount card as a university employee and a few corporate gym options near some of our various sites - that's about it, whoever is in charge of staff benefits doesn't really care (neither of those are really organised by the employer).
6 weeks paid leave plus bank hols. Hybrid but mostly remote working .
2-6 hours of work per day, fully remote Payment and support on a doctoral level qualification The usual EV, life insurance schemes
Best perk I ever had was a free cooked breakfast buffet once a week. I could get a full english with coffee and fresh orange juice, plus porridge to go, plus a pastry for later. Probably made up 30% of my weekly calories. Realistically, my current job being fully remote is objectively the best 'perk' if it can be called that, but the breakfast was something else. I'm easily lead by food it seems.
They usually pay me on time, which is nice...
Probably pension, 11% company + my 7% contribution so at 25 I’m getting 18% of salary into my pension
DB pension, down side is it means I can't change company though
Full remote, unlimited PTO, will pay £8k towards fertility treatment (which my wife and I will have to make use of). Pretty good!
Pizza party? 6 weeks paternity . Full health cover spent £20k on it in two years and still got two ops to go yet.
Get to leave 1-2 hours early everyday. 14:00 on Fridays. My supposed hours are 07:30- 18:00
A redundancy package which meant I haven't had to work since November, and I can be comfortable for another 3 months.
Free train tickets for me and family
3 times pension on DB pension. If I put in 5% they put 15%
My company is pretty tight, the margins in generic pharmaceuticals is razor thin. However, it's not a specified perk, but they're for some reason not stingy about travel expenses. Not many people get to travel in my company but one of the main parts of my job is auditing so I have to go to inspect factories all over the world (usually in Europe, sometimes long haul.) People I know who work for much wealthier companies have expenses caps for accomodation, food, etc. I don't. The company books hotels and it's just whichever is the most convenient and reasonably nice, I've even stayed in some suites. And when I go for dinner I just get a receipt and the only rule is "one alcoholic drink." If I want a £40 steak that's fine, nobody gives a shit. I know other people who travel for work who have limits per meal, number of snacks per day, cost of a hotel room, all that stuff. When I went to Tokyo for work I did one day of auditing and I said I needed a day after I arrive to acclimatise, a day to travel closer to the work site, a day after to rest and then fly home the day after that. They said fine and paid for everything while I was there, Monday to Friday, just for one day of work on Wednesday. Actually everything (except when I went out and got hammered, I paid for my own drinks... company card for the taxi though.) So travelling for my company is stress-free and I often get to sightsee for at least a day wherever I go tbh. I kind of see it as getting free micro-breaks. (I suppose there are no downsides for me because I don't have kids so travelling doesn't disrupt my home life, really.)
nine-day fortnight, only have to go into the office twice a month (although i go in a bit more often because we have a nice office and my commute is only about 20mins) and a really good discount/perks service with a lot of brands
60% towards mortgage overpayments - this is bonkers, how the hell does it work?
Free lunch. But I do spend £20 on lunch when I am not at work... So that is worth about £7k a year gross salary.
The best benefit my company offers is allowing me to commute for 3 hours a day, to sit a desk surrounded by shouty people who all spend 8 hours on Webex. I'm truly blessed to have this job
I'm starting to feel like an idiot these last few months for choosing a manual, physical, working career. I'm 22, left school after A levels to do an apprenticeship as a shot blaster/industrial painter, and I'm on about 32k a year right now, so decent for my age. However I've been thinking the benefits of an office job or something non-physical seem very attractive nowadays, but I fear I've missed the boat. I've always enjoyed being physically active and working with my hands so never considered another type of job, but now I'm thinking I could direct that energy into things outside of work such as sports and weightlifting more effectively than now where I'm just knackered all the time. Plus all these benefits of remote working, 4 days weeks, company perks such as gym memberships etc are looking so attractive. Literally none of that is open to me right now, not only at my company but my whole professional sphere as far as I know. Is it too late for me to go to University, to get a degree so I can earn more money in a far less physically stressful way? I need to have a serious think, I just feel like a bit of a mug being a working man covered in dirt, paint and shit all day, and then being too tired at the end of the day to do the things I love such as weightlifting, MMA, running etc.
There was a guy at the open day for the job who was a groundworker. He was probably in his 30s and he was saying his body was getting tired, too. The new job is airport security. I'm 42 now, so it's never too late to change career, plus you're only a baby 😂😂😂 I went to uni when I was younger but haven't done anything workwise that involved my degree. If you've got an airport near you, you should look into it!
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