What great company benefits do you get?

[TheAngryDog]

SteBrown91 said:

Flexi time, a 6.5% contribution pension (was final salary, but this has changed now too) paid about 7-8k a year more for a job than in private IT industry

On call payment is national standby allowance (plus O/T if called) which is nice

How much is National standby allowance? Or is that just a term used by your company?

Edited by TheAngryDog on Friday 2nd December 07:00

[tribalsurfer]

Prohibiting said:

I get a nice large 4-bed house to live in (not my house) with the "rent" paid for.

Watch out lads we have a Vicar in the house.

[SteBrown91]

TheAngryDog said:

How much is National standby allowance? Or is that just a term used by your company?

Edited by TheAngryDog on Friday 2nd December 07:00

National standby is £29.17 per period. Each period is 12 hours (so double on weekends) I believe it is a proper government/industry agreed rate

[andye30m3]

Company I work for does very little other than health care

Last 2 places I've worked have done a winter weekend away which was always a good laugh over the years went to Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, Copenhagen, Madrid, Munich and a few others.

Do miss those, but to be fair to the company I work for the additional salary makes up for the lack of perks

[MrJuice]

I have a friend who used to work for Google and now Facebook. Google had a free canteen. Several canteens in fact serving good food. Branded stuff too. You just go in, pick up and leave.

I guess it means peoole don't have to leave the office and Google gets more productive minutes from their staff.

Not sure about healthcare etc but I imagine they got all that too

[TheAngryDog]

SteBrown91 said:

TheAngryDog said:

How much is National standby allowance? Or is that just a term used by your company?

Edited by TheAngryDog on Friday 2nd December 07:00

National standby is £29.17 per period. Each period is 12 hours (so double on weekends) I believe it is a proper government/industry agreed rate

Thanks

I don't work for the government, just in IT at a small company, I guess that would not apply to me? I get £150 a week. I'm on call 7am until 9:30am on Monday, then 5:30pm until 9:30 am each work day, and all weekend. I also pretty much cannot leave the house during that period.

[Prohibiting]

tribalsurfer said:

Watch out lads we have a Vicar in the house.

Completely wrong!

[AB]

A pool table which I had to buy myself! Other than that, nothing.

[NorthDave]

MrJuice said:

I have a friend who used to work for Google and now Facebook. Google had a free canteen. Several canteens in fact serving good food. Branded stuff too. You just go in, pick up and leave.

I guess it means peoole don't have to leave the office and Google gets more productive minutes from their staff.

Not sure about healthcare etc but I imagine they got all that too

I've worked for some very big companies in the past and it always amazes me the standard of the canteens - rubbish ones run by huge catering companies. Basically chips and pizza etc, the kind of thing schools dont serve anymore. Surely a healthy diet means healthy staff and a more productive workforce?

Now I run my own company my own benefits are excellent :-) Healthcare, good coffee and a great environment, as it is pistonheads I also get a 340i to drive!

[SteBrown91]

TheAngryDog said:

SteBrown91 said:

TheAngryDog said:

How much is National standby allowance? Or is that just a term used by your company?

Edited by TheAngryDog on Friday 2nd December 07:00

National standby is £29.17 per period. Each period is 12 hours (so double on weekends) I believe it is a proper government/industry agreed rate

Thanks

I don't work for the government, just in IT at a small company, I guess that would not apply to me? I get £150 a week. I'm on call 7am until 9:30am on Monday, then 5:30pm until 9:30 am each work day, and all weekend. I also pretty much cannot leave the house during that period.

Probably not it's not a mandatory allowance but it's intended to be adopted for people who are on call where it is not built in to or salary (which it used to be back in the day)

[TheAngryDog]

SteBrown91 said:

TheAngryDog said:

SteBrown91 said:

TheAngryDog said:

How much is National standby allowance? Or is that just a term used by your company?

Edited by TheAngryDog on Friday 2nd December 07:00

National standby is £29.17 per period. Each period is 12 hours (so double on weekends) I believe it is a proper government/industry agreed rate

Thanks

I don't work for the government, just in IT at a small company, I guess that would not apply to me? I get £150 a week. I'm on call 7am until 9:30am on Monday, then 5:30pm until 9:30 am each work day, and all weekend. I also pretty much cannot leave the house during that period.

Probably not it's not a mandatory allowance but it's intended to be adopted for people who are on call where it is not built in to or salary (which it used to be back in the day)

My company give us the bare minimum possible, so they would never adopt it. They arent even offering us a company pension until the last minute, which I believe is Feb 2018.

[Greshamst]

I miss my old place, used to get;

Free bar starting at 4 on a Friday with actually decent beers (meantime/brew dog etc)
Free tickets to rugby, cricket, the derby races, opera if you were so inclined
Lots of free company marketed stuff (umbrellas, wallets, wine)
They rented out Madisons bar every few months - free bar

Just loads of great marketing stuff to their own staff.

Then I went contracting for another place and don't even get free coffee

[Streetrod]

Ashfordian said:

Streetrod said:

I have recently joined a new company and I have been made to feel most welcome.

But what I find unusual is the lengths the company has gone to make this company a pleasant place to work. Apart from the fact that my office is based in a grade 2 listed manor house with views across a wonderful garden with the river Thames at the bottom of it we also get:
• Our own beautifully maintained golf course
• A grass football pitch
• A games room with pool tables and an Xbox etc.
• Plus the use of the companies ski chalet when I go to the Nordics

What less common benefits do you enjoy in your work place?

What industry is this?

An Enterprise software company.

And by the way I forgot to add the:
• Cricket pitch
• The best car allowance I have ever had
• An amazing restaurant which only costs £1.70 for a very nice cooked lunch and 80pence for a full English breakfast
• Free coffee
• Various salary sacrifice deals including cheap gadgets and a cheap car scheme
• Plus a bunch of other stuff too long to mention

I think this is why we have been voted one of the ten best places to work in the Fortune 500 for the last few years

Here is a pic of my office:

Edited by Streetrod on Friday 2nd December 21:24

[Ynox]

MrJuice said:

I have a friend who used to work for Google and now Facebook. Google had a free canteen. Several canteens in fact serving good food. Branded stuff too. You just go in, pick up and leave.

I guess it means peoole don't have to leave the office and Google gets more productive minutes from their staff.

Not sure about healthcare etc but I imagine they got all that too

Same at SAP. And you hit the nail on the head as to why they offer it. You end up having impromptu lunchtime meetings and are away from your desk for 20 minutes tops.

Strangely I don't actually mind it one bit though.

[anonymous-user]

6weeks holidays + bank holidays
12.5% employer contribution / 40% final salary, missed out on 66% by 10 days.
Excellent Salary + Bonus
Rent paid for, based upon my girlfriend living with me = they pay me more (tax free)
Travel in Business all over the world
Free private healthcare for me and my family
Free trips back to my 'home' destination (family + dogs all paid for)
Free, good, coffee
They paid for my degree
Don't clock in / out (self managing teams)

And in my opinion the best two;

The ability to move to different country's without speaking the language (as long as you speak English! + they pay for our lessons)

Never work weekends / shifts / OT etc (haven't worked a weekend since I was 22, so 6 years now )

ETA; pension details wrong, 10.5% matched + 2% cash + my 4%

Edited by Trexthedinosaur on Friday 2nd December 21:24

Edited by Trexthedinosaur on Friday 2nd December 21:25

Edited by Trexthedinosaur on Friday 2nd December 21:30

[Streetrod]

Trexthedinosaur said:

6weeks holidays + bank holidays
14.5% employer contribution / 40% final salary, missed out on 66% by 10 days.
Excellent Salary + Bonus
Rent paid for, based upon my girlfriend living with me = they pay me more (tax free)
Travel in Business all over the world


And in my opinion the best two;
the ability to move to different country's without knowing the language (as long as you speak English!)
Never work weekends / shifts / OT etc (haven't worked a weekend since I was 22, so 6 years now )

Now that is sweet, my pension is decent but no where near that

[anonymous-user]

Mixed up a bit it's 10.5+2% and I pay 4%!

Will up it when I return to the UK to 6% I think, got nearly 10 years in it now!

[bga]

Ynox said:

Same at SAP. And you hit the nail on the head as to why they offer it. You end up having impromptu lunchtime meetings and are away from your desk for 20 minutes tops.

Strangely I don't actually mind it one bit though.

If you are at CHP then the other benefit is that you don't risk your life when leaving the office on foot :-). I do like finding excuses to visit whenever possible.

[TheAngryDog]

I need a better company to work for!!

[MattHall91]

Just standard company car, fuel card, pension, subsidised meals etc in my current job.

In my last one it was a bit silly. £10 every day for lunch (receipt or not), 45p/25p paid for business and personal miles, 30 days hol plus bank hols, 4 cases of beer a month, 7.5% pension.