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My Thoughts: I do believe that companies should not be compared on face value, but the simple fact applies to all companies- "People are a great asset to any company". This implies that "people" should be treated as assets indeed. Most Nigerian companies especially foreign companies on Nigerian soil, should learn a thing or two from the companies listed below...
Ask a venture-backed start up CEO what his or her most immediate challenges are and more than likely you’ll find hiring near the top of the list. Also present will be retaining talent. To be competitive, growing organizations are finding that making sure the grass is greener on their side of the fence is paramount and sometimes that means instituting some pretty outrageous perks.
Massages are one of Google's many luxurious employee perks. (image credit: JilliancYork on Flickr)...
Google, whose hiring protocol has been lauded as one of quirkiest and most challenging for prospective employees, has been known to offer luxurious benefits to those that make it through the company’s HR gauntlet.
The company has been known to offer such perks as free, on-site haircuts; gyms with swim-in-place swimming pools (complete with lifeguards on duty); R&R tools like ping pong, foosball, billiards and video games; laundry and dry-cleaning facilities; on-site medical staff and, of course, the famous massages. Google gave employees 100,000 hours in subsidized massages in 2012.
"How'd you like the toilet paper?" AOL's Tim Armstrong. Image by AOL via CrunchBase...
AOL has been known to throw down for its employees too. In 2011, FORBES’ own Jeff Bercovici reported that the company’s policies included nap rooms (thank you Ariana Huffington) with a massage chair and some time masseuse, Thursday cocktail parties that boast karaoke (if it’s possible to boast karaoke) and a rolling drink cart, as well as custom printed toilet paper.
We've all heard about what a great place Facebook is to work, but it’s especially attentive to women who are expecting a child. The company allows for four months paid maternity leave, gives reimbursements for daycare and adoption fees, as well as a $4,000 ‘gift’ for the new baby.
1stdibs
New York-based start up 1stdibs – whose CEO David Rosenblatt, sold DoubleClick to Google for $3 billion – treats its employees very well indeed. The online fine arts and jewelry-buying platform serves its people a catered, white-tablecloth lunch every Wednesday. Is that overly extravagant? Probably not. It’s an employee-petting expense that VC investors Index Ventures and Benchmark can live with.
Airbnb
The un-hotel travel accommodation company allows its employees a very appropriate indulgence. Each year Airbnb gives all of its workers $2,000 to travel anywhere in the world. In addition to the now de rigueur provision of lunches and workout space (yes, Yoga too), the company also lets its people bring their pets to work every day. They must go through a lot of puppy pee-pads.
Culled from Forbes Magazine...
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Simply Cheska...
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