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I'm interested in anything really interesting/fun/creative/worthwhile or even the boring stuff like life insurance. If it's of value to you as an employee then it's worth listing.
After 4 years, the car is yours.
The worst part of my day, every day, is managing windows (the application windows) in Windows (the OS). It's terrible. We build Java software that has a web front end. It really shouldn't matter which OS I use to develop (assuming I test in IE frequently), but I'm forced to use Windows. sigh A really really simple thing that many companies could do is to let their software developers have a bit more control over their environment.
It's really nice to be able to take your outgoing packages to the shipping folks, give them some money, and have them take care of fedex/ups. It's much better than leaving work to go to fedex, ups, what have you.
Most large companies already have shipping departments, so the only additional fixed cost is the ability to take money from employees.
And, if fed ex/ups/etc have minimums, this helps meet them, so it may even reduce some company costs.
2) Smart colleagues: for work and non-work conversation.
3) Fridges stocked with healthy food: junk food is cheaper, but leaves you unable to think clearly.
Free food is the best. It's actually a really strong incentive to get employees to stay at work longer, and who doesn't like free food? Now it is becoming more and more of a standard perk at startups which is a great thing!
In most cases, it isn't the food that I'd pick myself and it often leads to weight gain.