employee benfits – Dispatches From The Front

Employee benefits are one of the most crucial things you will need to offer your workers. Both to make sure you can recruit the best and then keep them over the long term. The good news is you can find out what some of the most popular employee benefits are in the post below.

Parental leave

Did you know that even today some businesses offer zero parental leave? That means people have to go straight back to work after giving birth or welcoming a new baby into their family. Of course, as having a baby is such as big life change not offering time off for people to adjust to this will cause them undue stress, both at work and in their personal lives. It’s also pretty dehumanizing to expect people with such as important event occurring in their lives to carry on at work as if nothing has happened.

“You never say thank you,” young advertising copywriter Peggy Olson complains to her boss, Don Draper.

“That’s what the money is for!” he retorts.

This exchange from TV’s Mad Men perfectly captures one of the enduring challenges of the workplace: sometimes managers and employees have vastly different notions of which incentives really matter.

I would argue that-including in the case of Peggy and Don-there is a generational component to such differences. Don, a child of the Great Depression and a Korean War veteran, is a classic Traditionalist (the generation born in the 1920s and 1930s) for whom work is a transaction. As he says earlier in this exchange, “I give you money, you give me ideas.”

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