Wildest Company Perk

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I want to know who works for the company with the most unique or wildly generous perks / benefits.

What's yours?

I get just over $11,000 per year in expensible perks. From home office, to int/phone, to personal travel and a joy budget (yep, no rules anything that helps me feel joy).

Let's see what else is out there.

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I have a job. And health benefits. That's about it.

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I'm getting jipped here. I have access to a discount portal that sucks hahah the paid paternity leave is cool though for when we plan to have another kid.

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I've worked from home for over 15 years, so there has always been the $100 a month for home internet and expense your cell phone bill. Panasonic gave me a company car, which was amazing. The car was nice - brand new VW Passat with every option, I just had to pick the color, and i was delivered to a local dealership about three weeks later. The best part was that it wasn't limited to work use, it was just my car. I had a corporate gas card with no limit, no mileage tracking, they pay insurance and repairs, and I could exoense full cleaning once every seven days. If you hit 60k miles, you just emailed the fleet manager, and he would send you a link to order a new one. When I left the company, my car was about 10 months old with 15k miles, blue book about $24k. They let let me buy it out and keep it for $12k.

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In both current and previous roles I've been able to shoot guns, travel the world, stay in 5-star hotels, drink on the flight deck of a nuclear aircraft carrier, dine in Michelin-star restaurants and meet royalty.

I'd say they were all perks, but they were not something expected and more just seizing opportunities.

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dude that is legit! I had a company pay for my internet and phone bill. that was awesome.

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Damn, I think you win.

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Have a "cry room" at work that is just a more secluded area on the sales floor that people can go in and relax and zone out for a bit also a slide that no one uses at all. Also some snacks and stuff that gets replenished on the week.

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I have questions on this joy budget and all the ways "one" could exploit it...

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Not a perk of mine but my mom was pretty high up at a large company and got to fly PJs all over the world. Got to tag along a few times and that was pretty sweet.

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The best I've got right now is reimbursement for books. To be fair I'm fully remote and we have a STRONG tech stack so I'm pretty happy with my situation.

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Lots of perks with my previous employer, but I didn't take advantage of all of them every year.

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I get around 12k in car allowance per year, phone package, health insurance & lots of points from my travels which i can use for personal travel. All in pretty happy.

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Free flights for the family anywhere on PTO ❤️

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Very boring with a website thats like a coupon book

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I used to work at a place with in-office meditation once a week and then free access to Headspace.

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I really need to sit down and parse through all of mine - I have extensive ones, though none qualify as "Wild" imo, but I never got strategic about using them to the fullest.

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Was hired for remote outside sales and given a brand new off the line company car and gas card but COVID caused everyone to be 'inside sales'. This lasted two years but we kept the cars and gas cards the whole time because nobody knew when it would end. Cars were allowed for personal use and spouse/partners were allowed to drive too. Sold my own car because I didn't need it regardless, and we never drove wife's car because of the free gas.

Joke's on me though. New job doesn't come with a car so I forked over cash to buy a new one.

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Wow that sounds like an amazing perk. Nothing crazy for me, but our company has a wellness day, every first friday of the month.

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Permanent WFH + free car and fuel

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All of these comments are making me think I need to find a new job with better perks! I am going to a personal development conference next week for my coaching side hussle and my company paid for my entrance ticket (slightly ironic since end goal is to quit to be a FT coach someday but hey they support my dreams so I've got that going for me!)

And we all went to Cabo for our Christmas party last year. They also pay 100% of our healthcare which is a nice perk also, but should be the norm in my opinion

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Where do you work? Joy buys?!? Awesome.

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I get a. $1000 stipend every year for travel which is to encourage us to use our "discretionary time off." I don't work in the office, but the people who do get catered lunch 3 times a week. To make up for that, I do have a company card and I'm allowed to buy breakfast, lunch & dinner on it when I'm on the road (3x a week).

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A co worker of mine wants us to sign a petition that on fridays around mid-day we all get 1 Beer to help wind down from the week and relax a little!!

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Fitness, personal edu, home office , regular expenses which all come out to $4kish/yr.  I have trouble actually using them up and often pay out of my own pocket per category

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My favorite was $100/month coffee shop budget. They also had a dependent fund, so those with kids or other dependents got a little extra every month.

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Extremely good health insurance.

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First of all $11k? Do you get a referral bonus too cause sign me up!!

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@raidernation48Are they hiring lol geez

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Regular paying job, health benefits, paid leaves and probably the flexibility to work from anywhere (now).

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We fly everyone and their spouse to Palm Beach every year for an all expenses paid 4 day trip, nobody at our firm pays their own health insurance premiums, and there’s a bowl of candy on the receptionist desk.

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Wildest Company Perk

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Wildest Company Perk

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