5 Employee Benefits for Hybrid & Remote Employees
Keep your employees happy when they work from home because the Future of Work is unavoidable!
It is a fact. Many employees work remotely, at least some of the time. Times have changed. Gig economy has emerged and even full-time employees now stay at home because they LOVE it.
You, as a team leader, company owner, or C-level executive, need to support your people and make your employer brand stand out. Traditional benefits, like laptop, ping-pong tables, or snacks don’t work. So what now?
Here is a list of seven benefits to offer your virtual and hybrid employees:
1. Schedule Flexibility
Divide your teams into smaller groups and give them the flexibility to work any time they want over the day. Now that they don’t have to be at the office from 9AM to 5PM, and they don’t waste time in commuting, they may want to start at 7AM or 11AM. Or they may prefer to work four hours in the morning and four hours in the evening. If your projects are time-sensitive, half your groups will be flexible from the 1st of the month till the 15th and the rest half from the 16th to the 30th.
2. Netflix subscription & e-books
Buy them a Netflix (or any other similar service) subscription. People will get to watch movies, TV shows, documentaries, and those who have kids will get to keep their kids entertained at times. If your people prefer books, then buy them one or two e-books / audiobooks / paperbacks instead.
3. Digital Library
I have previously stressed the importance of creating a digital library for your people. You can buy online courses to help them improve current skills or even gain new ones based on their interests. Now, you can add hobby courses as well for those who may want to start writing, painting, cooking, gardening, or anything else they can try at home.
4. Online Coaching
I personally don’t know a single person who hasn’t been psychologically affected by the pandemic, the war and the constant fearmongering. Hire coaches to support your employees on a regular basis. If you care about your people, you care about their mental well-being.
5. Contest
How many times employees have great ideas to promote the company or to reduce costs but they don’t get to be heard? Even if they are heard, there is sometimes too much red tape or unwillingness to implement a change. It’s time to listen to your people’s ideas.
Start two contests; one for the Marketing department and one for the other departments, as marketers traditionally have more ideas to promote a company. The winners (one from Marketing one from another department) gets an extra salary. Kill two birds with one stone.
