Employees are receiving more creative benefits from companies

Companies are providing a wider range of unique and creative benefits to their employees in 2012, with available services ranging from discounted jewelry to pet insurance, reduced funeral planning costs, cancer insurance and even meditation services at the desk. These additional benefits are arriving at a time when employers are trying to keep their workers content in their workplaces despite the higher workloads, pay cuts, reductions in matches for 401(k), and higher costs for health insurance. According to managing director John Breman, from the employer consultancy, Towers Watson, businesses are…

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Pet insurance helps employers please workers through coverage for furry family members

As an acknowledgement to the importance of the role pets play in the lives of their owners, employers seeking an affordable way to please their workers are increasingly offering pet insurance, which helps those employees with the rising cost of animal health care. Newly released research from John Lewis Pet Insurance has shown that among pet owners of cats and dogs, 6 percent have created social networking profiles for their companion animals. The survey included 2,003 pet owners in the United Kingdom, who revealed that their pets had profiles on…

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