Employers Win Workers With Perks, Not Raises

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Post by MikeHo » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 3:24 PM UTC

Employers Win Workers With Perks, Not Raises
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Re: Employers Win Workers With Perks, Not Raises

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Post by bartonfink » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 5:10 PM UTC

Does interesting work count as a perk? I don't really care about most of the perks that were listed (e.g. on-site dry-cleaning, professional mentoring or subsidized training) but the best way to keep me on is to make sure I don't get bored. If I have to ask more than a couple of times for more challenging work and don't get anything from my manager, I'm going to find it somewhere else.

Re: Employers Win Workers With Perks, Not Raises

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Post by MikeHo » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

bartonfink wrote: post #2

Does interesting work count as a perk? I don't really care about most of the perks that were listed (e.g. on-site dry-cleaning, professional mentoring or subsidized training) but the best way to keep me on is to make sure I don't get bored. If I have to ask more than a couple of times for more challenging work and don't get anything from my manager, I'm going to find it somewhere else.

A lot of the times ordinary office jobs consist of low morale repetitive tasks.. I agree with you, being engaged is a fundamental need of humanity.