But if you think wearing your Crocs to casual Friday or receiving a birthday card signed by your work friends constitutes a pretty decent motivational perk, it\u2019s time to think again\u2014here are 15 of the best and most thoughtful job perks from companies around the world, so you know exactly what to drop in the \u201csuggestions\u201d box on your next trip to the office water cooler.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame when you love your work, but hate going to work. \u201cMan, this job would be great,\u201d you tell yourself, \u201cif only I could do it from a beach in Tahiti.\u201d After completing a year of service to the company, lucky employees of Software Advice get to spend a month working from anywhere in the world they choose.<\/p>\n
After five years at the New Belgium brewing company in Colorado, workers are taken on a group trip to Belgium to experience the frite-loving, hard-drinking monarchal culture that inspired the company\u2019s creation. Employees don\u2019t have<\/em> to get the Tintin tattoo at the end, but if you don\u2019t, your co-workers will never really respect you again.<\/p>\n At Patagonia, you can relive the carefree, youthful intern lifestyle all over again, with all of the fun and none of the poverty. The company\u2019s employee internship program allows workers paid time off to pitch in at an environmental non-profit of their choice.<\/p>\n At Xero, an online accounting firm in New Zealand, the staff takes a daily group walk to a local coffee shop. Bosses encourage employees to use this time to mingle and get to know each other, thereby strengthening their bond as a team, and finally giving Cathy from sales a chance to chat up Carlos the handsome controller.<\/p>\n Sartre once said that \u201chell is other people,\u201d but most people don\u2019t know that the full quote is actually \u201chell is other people who are not, at this moment, giving you some kind of present.\u201d In considering these words of wisdom, YuppieChef, a Cape Town start up, makes their workplace a little less hellish by giving employees a budget for their co-workers\u2019 birthdays, and by encouraging them to “desk-bomb” the birthday girl or boy\u2019s workspace with gifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the era of human physical labor winds to a close, some of us (who haven\u2019t already been replaced by algorithms or mechanical arms) can take comfort in the cushy work environments and delightful extras …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.press75.com\/massive-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3. Non-Profit Motive<\/h3>\n
4. Tea and Sympathy<\/h3>\n
5. Present Perfect<\/h3>\n