For organizations to complete in today’s marketplace for talent, common benefits have become ineffective as recruiting tools. Organizations need to look at creative employee benefits ideas that demonstrate to new employees that the organization can think outside the box.

Here is a comprehensive compilation of the most creative Employee Wellness benefit ideas that enable innovative organizations deliver better value to their employees well beyond dental, health and pension options that most offer in their plans.

These ideas a relevant for all budgets and sizes of organizations and provide a simplified approach to Benefits planning to increase employee satisfaction.

Employee Benefits Ideas – Wellness

Employees working at Capital One’s head office can take advantage of several onsite amenities including a cafeteria with subsidized meals, a nap room, an employee lounge (fully stocked with video games, a foosball table and a ping-pong table) and shared access to an onsite fitness facility

Blake, Cassels & Graydon encourages employees to lead healthy, balanced lives through an extensive health and wellness program which includes monthly newsletters, lunch and learn seminars and nearby exercise classes — additionally, the firm offers a $600 subsidy to help cover the cost of gym memberships

In an effort to help employees balance their personal health and wellness, The College of Physicians and Surgeons created a formal wellness program that includes subsidized onsite yoga, pilates and fitness classes, monthly wellness newsletters and workshops and an annual onsite wellness fair

Human Resources

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Human Resources – Insights and Ideas

Human Resources – Insights and Ideas to help people managers optimize their strategies, strengthen retention and motivate staff. Read more.

Featured research: Beyond KPIs. The Importance of Building Trust.

Building Trust: “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” –Thomas Moore

Many leaders can attest to this experience: You ask your team to carry out a task that has enough flexibility for creative input. Rather than making their own decisions, the team comes to you with an onslaught of questions, trying to pin down the exact parameters of the task.

The reason for this behaviour is a lack of trust or possibly gaps in competencies. The latest results of the Arcus Trust Index survey indicate that trust in business in Canada has declined precipitously by 12 points to 42% over the past year. We haven’t seen a 12-point dip in the Arcus Index (that includes 55 dimensions of trust) since the Enron days. People simply don’t trust others like they used to. Read more.