9 perks the average American gets that Silicon Valley doesn’t
Bloomberg
#1: Shift flexibility:
Most often used by service workers, companies with shift flexibility allow employees to coordinate among themselves to cover their shifts at the last minute. The Society for Human Resource Management estimate 20 percent of American companies allow the practice, compared to just 10 percent of tech companies.
Click above to learn more about the perks people outside Silicon Valley get.
Most often used by service workers, companies with shift flexibility allow employees to coordinate among themselves to cover their shifts at the last minute. The Society for Human Resource Management estimate 20 percent of American companies allow the practice, compared to just 10 percent of tech companies.
Click above to learn more about the perks people outside Silicon Valley get.
- By Luke Stangel
Today, we’ll examine the other side of the coin, looking at the types of benefits that the average American gets that we don’t. Some of these benefits - such as discounts on work uniforms - reflect the division between white collar and blue collar work in America. Others are not as clear-cut.
What perks do you love? What ones do you miss? Take our survey and let us know.
This week’s articles are part of a continuing Business Journal series on employee incentives in Silicon Valley. Last week, we looked at work-from-home policies.
For this article, we crunched exclusive data from the Society for Human Resource Management, which routinely polls hundreds of American companies on the types of benefits they offer workers.
The numbers reveal that tech workers generally enjoy better and more varied employee benefits than the average American.
Click through the slideshow to see the benefits tech workers are missing out on.
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