To ask your work 'perks'

[WhoTookTheChristmasCookie]

I've read a story this morning about the employees of a company being up in arms that their 'free, unlimited beer' perk has been limited.
Due to noise complaints and a concern for the working environment they've been 'rationed' to four glasses between 5 and 7pm on Thursday and Friday.

I'm gobsmacked!!!

Before that they were able to drink as much as they wanted whenever they wanted throughout the working day - how was any work getting done?

Are job perks like this normal? I was lucky enough to get a free tea in my last job and that was subject to conditions
Does your job give you good perks? If so, where do you work? I'm on the hunt for a new job!

Pension is good even though I contribute 5.45%

Flexi time.

30 days annual leave plus 8 bank hols and a privilege day for the Queen’s birthday.

Free gym and sailing club.

Discounts between 10 and 20% at many retail stores and cafes/restaurants.

I Have a company car and free fuel for it, medical insurance which i’m Taxed on, plus pension contributions, free tea and coffee, free fruit bowl

Unlimited boiling water to make hot drinks...with your own tea/coffee/milk etc. Nothing, not a thing. Zero...

Flexi time, ability to work from home twice a week, business class flights for travel time above 3 hours, free private medical cover (includes everything), free tea/coffee/fruit.

DH doesn’t get the medical cover but does get a defined benefit pension scheme.

I'm a teacher so I get 13 weeks' holiday a year (but have to pay school holiday prices for travel). I pay for my own tea and coffee- no other perks!
My DH has a new company car every 3 months. I get one every 6 months. Free insurance, servicing, tax. He has a fuel card for free fuel. He gets hotel and food allowance while travelling for work inc flights. We both have health insurance.

8 weeks annual leave is the biggest perk. Ability to work from home whenever I want (I rarely do). Completely flexible working day. Very little oversight or deadlines so my own boss to a large extent. Free coffee!

Decent pension.

Have taken to buying my own stationary too, as they'll only provide red pens. If any at all.

Oh yeah and we get unpaid overtime which isn't voluntary either

I can't think of any other perk. Probably the wrong time to think about it really as I'm feeling very disheartened and bitter towards work at the moment.

I briefly worked in a call centre job(people called to ask for advice) and the perks were brilliant. You soon realise why they exist though because the job was terrible, very stressful and staff morale was so low. The perks included a subsidised canteen with a lot of choices, subsidised Starbucks, massage chairs, X-Box with variety of games, free gym use, cinema screenings, various events, luxury and high-end companies would come in and you could buy their products at a much reduced price. There were others that I can't recall. The staff dropped like flies.

I'm very suspicious of most companies with such perks now. I enjoyed them but I'd much rather work somewhere with no or few perks where you were treated with respect and given support. Of course I'm sure there are companies who manage to combine both but it does make me wary.

Free tea and coffee in the staffroom, sandwiches when we have parents evening and a free lunch in the canteen on teacher training days.

It's probably the most generous school I've worked for in terms of perks!

I wish I'd realised the value of employer contributions to pension when I was younger. I cashed in my pension payments in my late 20s, got back what I paid in, less tax (about £800). Years later I found myself buying past added years in my then pension scheme at exorbitant cost as I was paying both mine and employers contributions as a percentage of my then higher salary.
So it's good to see people do now recognise how valuable a pension scheme can be.

Teachers’ Pension is ok. Working hours very long but mainly shoehorned into term time so although I do work during holidays it’s on my terms.
But nothing else... except knowledge about secondary education and access to resources that are really helpful for my secondary age DC.
Access to the canteen food... cheap and actually really good for school food. We pay of course but it’s not much.

Free slap up meal plus wind at Christmas, plus a hamper of goodies.

Free slap up meal mid-June at the end of term.

At the beginning of term when we have a meeting, free slap up lunch.

Free wi-fi.

Free water from a water cooler.

Language academies aren't known for their perks.

We can only get time off if we ourselves find cover, and then only because it's a funeral or something, definitely no term-time holidays.

We work on a rota and every 4 years you get Saturdays off, otherwise we work 10-1 on Saturdays. That blows.

And pay is shocking.

But I love teaching English and guiding students through their exams.

NHS, so the standard things that come with that. Decent pension, decent holiday entitlement, job security, discounts in a few places. No freebies like tea and coffee though.

Free accommodation (4 bed house), free broadband & sky tv, no electric, gas or water bills, no council tax, no buildings insurance, property maintenance when necessary etc. Cleaner. Some free meals.

Tbf if you have an actual pension attached to your job that's the best perk you can have, hands down. Tea/coffee/booze are all nothing in comparison.

We get unlimited fancy coffee machine coffee, a weekly posh fruit basket, a Friday drinks trolley which comes desk to desk (not unlimited though!), free gym, and a social budget which covers around 6 events a year where everything is paid for (e.g. the Christmas party, summer party, and some smaller events like tickets to a comedy show etc). We also have an annual black tie ball which is free to attend (but no open bar).

We’re a massive firm, I think that’s key. I don’t think perks are very sustainable for small organisations.

@WhoTookTheChristmasCookie, ha ha it didn't last long. It was a milkshake with tons of cream in and the cake was massive I actually feel a bit sicky now. Its compensation for sitting here for 2 hours when the phone never rings and there has been one customer in, waste of my time !

I used to work for a wine merchant and from time to time you'd come in to find an (opened & recorked) bottle of wine on your desk. They'd been doing tastings, used one glass from each bottle, then taken the opened bottles and put one on each desk. Somehow I liked that more than if it was unopened - I guess because it needed drinking that day ha ha!

Free slap up meal plus wind at Christmas

Love it.

A pension is not a perk unless the employee is not paying into it.

Sooooooo, red and black Biros, whiteboard markers, teeny tiny glue sticks, hole punchers, Post-it notes, general stationery stuff.

My company have just announced a new mat package that will give you a whole year paid, three months 100%, three months 90% and the remainder 50%. I'm almost tempted to have another one...

public sector … they heat the building

Large Travel concessions

Private healthcare

Great pension

Hotel discounts

Free tea and coffee and a flu jab.

Free bin bags