Why your employer should clean your house and do your laundry

The Week ^ | 08/21/2014 | By Colleen Oakley, LearnVest

[SeekAndFind]

Casual Friday. Doughnuts at the staff meeting. Company pens for everyone!

While these ubiquitous work perks are nice — and may make going to the office a little easier on some days — they're probably not doing much for your financial life.

And that's precisely why some organizations have come to the conclusion that the best and most unique employee benefits don't just keep employees happy — they also put some extra cash into their pockets.

Just take a look at what these six savvy companies are offering their workers. Complimentary laundry service, anyone?

The perk: house cleaning The company: Evernote

After a long day at the office, the last thing you probably want to do is scrub your toilet — a predicament that San Francisco Bay area-based start-up Evernote totally gets.

That's why, in 2011, the company that creates apps to help users remember their ideas decided to help its employees remember to enjoy their free time — by hiring someone else to show up at their house with a mop and broom.

According to Ronda Scott, Evernote's director of communications, the company offers this unique employee benefit in order to keep staffers happy at work and at home. (Perhaps they've caught wind of the fact that being stressed outside the office often translates to less productivity at work.) "The benefits package at Evernote is designed to address the small stresses and inefficiencies of everyday life for our employees," Scott says.

To date, nearly half of their 250 employees are taking advantage of the opportunity to have their digs cleaned (for free!) twice a month.

How much employees save: $2,400 annually.

[wbill]

How much employees save: $2,400 annually.

I'd rather have the 2400 bucks and clean my own house.

Making a note to check my portfolio for some of the more egregious companies. Especially the one that offers free housecleaning.

[wally_bert]

I am a support IT person in a manufacturing facility and I would like tanker or flight suit type coveralls. The maintenence crowd does uniforms.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— when Obamacare forces HR to either rescind our corporate health insurance or severely curtail it. Wallpaper will be falling off of the walls from the collective screeching. -—

But will they blame Obamacare? I’m guessing that there won’t be more than a five percent shift.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Because then I’d have to clean my house so that it wouldn’t be dirty when the house cleaners came over...