By: Jennifer Miller

Have you ever wondered what makes people choose the company they ultimately work for? Most people believe that money is the most influential piece of the pie. Some companies have realized, however, that there is more to your everyday job than the pay at the end of the day and health benefits. People looking for jobs take other perks seriously. My generation, the millennial generation, especially care what a company has to offer outside of a paycheck. When you choose a company like Google, you are choosing not only the innovative everyday work, but you are choosing their culture as well.

According to an article on Mashable.com, these intensively innovative companies offer employees benefits that add to their well-being. Google, for example, offers everything from fitness classes and haircuts to car washes and dry cleaning services. These unconventional benefits are beginning to become the norm in companies. But why? Companies like Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook have realized that their employees need to be happy to be productive. Productivity is greatly affected by quality of life and the degree to which a person feels like they can get everything done in their days. Things like laundry services, the gym, and child care options allow people to stay at the office and get some important errands done without even leaving.

The companies displayed in this infographic are all highly competitive, innovative companies. Every day they are doing something new to keep up with the changing technologies. Their employees are working at a high level. Offering them additional, non-conventional benefits helps to make long hours worthwhile. The less they need to do when they guy home, the more time they can spend in the office. Other companies are starting to embrace this same idea in their offices.

Betterworks, a Los Angeles start-up, saw this need for perks in the workday and capitalized on it. They offered businesses ways to add perks to their employees with out breaking the bank. For small companies, using a company such as Betterworks could be really valuable. According to the website, their ultimate goal was to offer resources so that “businesses can quickly create better, more rewarding work environments for their employees while saving a ton of time and money.” They understood the psychology of why it is important to keep employees mentally healthy: “improved well-being, engagement, productivity and retention result from an optimized company culture.”

Hopefully more companies begin to see the importance of even the smallest perks in an office no matter how big or small the business.

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“The Perks of Working at Google, Facebook, Twitter and More” (Source)