🔖 Contents on this page:
- 🧘 1.1 Corporate perks & benefits
- 🏋️♀️ 1.2 Employee training
- 1.3 Flexible working arrangements
- 🤰1.4 Maternity & paternity leave + support for working parents
- 1.5 Social Day for employees
🧘 1.1 Corporate perks & benefits
Corporate perks & benefits are increasingly important for hiring and retaining talent. Employee perks help elevate a company’s employer brand; the positive vibes flow and help build a strong and positive reputation of the company outside of the workplace. And you know what they say about happy employees: happy customers aren’t far behind 🙂
When setting up your company perks, it is important to keep in mind that choice might be the best modern benefit - thus, to create an inclusive and flexible employee benefits, you will need to offer a certain range of different perks and if feasible even let your employee chose the benefits most suitable for their needs.
Individual services
One-stop shops
If you do not want to deal with several employee benefit providers, and prefer to let your employees decide, the following "one-stop shop" providers might be for you.
🏋️♀️ 1.2 Employee training
- Leadership Training:
- What? Leadership training typically builds on foundational skills, helping employees hone communication skills, project management, strategy, and, of course, leadership itself.
- For whom? Leadership training typically builds on foundational skills. Hence it is best to offer this training to employees who are on track to become a manager, or those recently promoted into a leadership position.
- Compliance Training:
- Compliance training is any kind of training every employee must undergo. This kind of training can range from safety to security to technical and beyond.
- For whom? All employees! Should be implemented once time core tools are updated, new harassment policies are put into place, security measures change, and so on
- Onboarding Training:
- Onboarding training should cover the essentials all new employees need to know: introductions to tools or software, communication practices, support resources, who to contact about particular issues, and so on.
- For whom? New Employees
- For a structured onboarding experience, we recommend 10lift or Kohomai
- Anti-Bias & Diversity Training:
- Anti-Bias & Diversity Training teaches employees how to respectfully work with and around people from various backgrounds.
- For whom? All employees (should be done at least every two years)
- Contact: Dana Kanze or Emma-Jayne Broadway
- Sales Training:
- Sales Training focuses on how employees can effectively advocate for the product, navigate difficult customer questions, and promote unique features.
- For whom? Sales Department
- Empower peer-to-peer learning:
- Peer-to-peer learning is a measure that not only allows employees to transmit their skills or expertise to the others; it fosters more team bonding
1.3 Flexible working arrangements
- By now, most employees "expect" flexible work arrangement. Looking at our portfolio most companies, offer at least a hybrid set-up.
- Check-out Flexa’s accreditation to outwardly publicize your flexibility
- An additional benefit could be to "allow" your employees to work X weeks from another country - note that it is important to check-out the bilateral agreements your HQ country has with other countries with regards to social security and tax.
- More and more countries, but also companies (voluntarily) are adopting the 4-days working week. The idea behind a four-day work week is to achieve the same results in fewer hours so people have more time to pursue other interests outside of work.
🤰1.4 Maternity & paternity leave + support for working parents
Even though you might not had the case yet, it will be helpful to draft a dedicated policy early on. This might also help you with regards to diverse hiring. To find the legally required minimum for Elternzeit in Germany, please find detailed information here.
- Potential benefits for working parents include:
- Flexible & remote work
- Paid parental leave (on top of governmental rules)
- Health benefits for the whole family
- Daycare offerings
