Benefits

Meal allowance, extra time for parental leave, having the day off on your birthday or even some flexibility in working hours. These are the most common benefits that companies have in their portfolio, but there are those who go further and build a completely different benefit plan. Original, personalised, unusual and sometimes even bizarre. All of it with one goal: to captivate potential employees, retain current ones and make them remember the company.

If there were doubts that we are witnessing a revolution at work - and in life in general -, also materialised in the way companies pay their employees, all of them disappeared in yet another ReFLEXions by Coverflex. In “Benefits Revolution: how much is flexible compensation worth in attracting and retaining talent?”, Eduardo Andrade, João Chainho and Pedro Albuquerque shared experiences and knowledge about what they have seen, over the years, in the national technological market, and in particular in the way talent behaves during recruitment and in companies' day-to-day.

In today’s hiring market, where competitiveness and change are always around the corner, benefits and perks beyond salary are essential for a company to recruit and motivate its people. More than ever, the workers look for other variables, besides their regular wage, to decide between staying or changing their job.

The world of employee benefits as a part of compensation beyond salary can be confusing and overwhelming. We’re here to break it down for you and to help you understand how you can make the most of what you have while offering your people more options — which are evidently most likely to fit the individual needs of those that make up your varied team.