The reason why “benefits” were even introduced stemmed from salary freezes in the 1970s. Companies started bundling “benefits” packages to attract talent despite bad salaries. Now everyone expects to get benefits when they sign on with a company.
They recently took away a coffee bar staffed by actual baristas in our corporate office, and people howled like you wouldn’t believe. I can’t wait to see what happens 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.
It’s not a benefit if it’s something you need. Just keep paying my salary, and I’ll deal with everything else, thanks.
“I can’t wait to see what happens 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.
It’s not a benefit if it’s something you need. Just keep paying my salary, and I’ll deal with everything else, thanks.”
I manage a retail operation; our family-owned company is VERY generous to us, but I am 100% honest with my employees that I no longer have the hours (no more than 29 a week) to be generous with, and big raises are a thing of the past. Keeping our jobs IS the new ‘raise.’
I’m finding the more open I am with them, the more willing they are to do what needs to be done to keep our company up and running. We have a few tough-sledding years ahead of us - MAJOR road construction - and it’s going to be my top two or three people and me running the show until that nightmare ends.
And don’t even MENTION 0bamacare around here; long-time employees have lost their Flex Plans and I’ve lost $800/year in perks from it as well.
The LAST thing most NORMAL people here in The Heartland care about is a coffee bar versus a paycheck. :)
Uh, it actually started in WW2.
Price and wage controls, business introduced the first “ benefit”, employer paid health care. And we can’t get rid of it to this day...