Did you know about the best ways to promote your organization’s unique perquisites to your employees on your HR Knowledgebase site?
Lifestyle benefits, a.k.a. employee perks, are non-salary benefits above and beyond standard medical, dental, and vision benefits.
As they are relatively inexpensive compared to salaries, their ROI is high.
Employers use lifestyle benefits to:
- Compliment an inclusive company culture
- Elevate employee engagement
- Maximize retention
- Gain a competitive edge among future talent
While employees rank health insurance, PTO, and 401(k) plans are the top three most desired benefits, these are relatively common. Coming in at a close fourth, they rank perks influence employees most when deciding to accept a job.
Unique lifestyle benefits distinguish your organization from all others in the war for talent.
Promoting Lifestyle Benefits
Use your Knowledgebase portal to remind your employees about all of the perks and inclusive programs your company provides for improving their lifestyles in-office and beyond.
Strategies follow:
For the Home Page
Add posts and links to lifestyle benefits to one or more widgets on your Knowledgebase Home page.
Employees will see them as soon as they login.
- Announcements widget
- Bulletins widget
- Discounts widget
- Home page banner image (1430 x 200 pixels)
- Lifestyle Benefits widget (custom)
- Videos
Lifestyle Benefits Widget
Add a custom Lifestyle Benefits widget to the Home page with:
- An image
- Introductory text
- Links to your organizations’ unique lifestyle perquisites, discounts, and more
Optionally, your new Lifestyle Benefits widget can be stand-alone or point to a custom Lifestyle Benefits main page.
Benefits Content
Include links to morale-boosting lifestyle benefits such as:
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) plan (authored)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (authored)
- Incentive compensation plan
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) plan (authored)
- Lifestyle benefit-related content pages
- Lifestyle benefit -related postings and uploads
- Pet insurance plan (authored)
- Profit sharing plan (authored)
Add these links to:
- Discounts main page
- Discounts widget
- Lifestyle Benefits main page
- Lifestyle Benefits widget
Note:
Currently, 11 states and the District of Columbia, and have laws regarding reimbursing employees for necessary work-related expenses.
- California
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- New York
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Washington & the city of Seattle
California and Illinois reimbursement laws include remote work expenses. For other states, this area is not clearly defined.
Videos
Include a window containing a video about your organizations’ lifestyle benefits on a content page or a widget.
Alternately, an integration link pointing to a video uploaded in-house or hosted on youtube can be added to any main page, widget, or content page on your Knowledgebase site.
For questions or more information, contact your HRSD Customer Success Manager.
