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Child Care Employees – The Benefits of Benefits
Taking care of children is a service industry, and thus dependent on attracting and maintaining good staff. Hiring the right personnel can make your business take off, or leave it struggling. You want to find child care employees that are qualified, reliable, friendly and motivated. Incentives - such as performance-related bonuses - can help boost staff performance. The rewards usually relate to the achievement of certain goals, either organizational, personal, or team, or a combination of all those goals. Giving Perks as benefits in addition to salary is a means of increasing satisfaction at work.
Competitive salaries are usually the most important staff motivator, so perks and incentives must not be seen as a substitute for a good pay scheme. However, employee benefits are not always expensive for businesses and some are tax free. While benefits to staff are fairly clear, do not underestimate the benefits to your business.
Benefits to the business
An effective system of incentives could help:
- Attract staff to work for your business
- Retain existing staff
- Increase staff motivation, morale and loyalty
- Boost productivity
- Link individual and business performance
- Focus employees on achieving targets
- Build teamwork
Benefits to staff
Perks and incentives can form an attractive element of an employment package by:
- Enhancing the quality of working life
- Rewarding staff efforts
- Adding value to the employment contract
- Providing a sense of security and value
While most people are acquainted with traditional employee benefits, such as vacation or training days and dental plans, there are many low cost, less traditional ways to reward your child care employees. Some staff incentive ideas include:
- Movie Tickets
- Thank you card- simple, but effective!
- Gift Certificate to book/educational store
- Extra 15 minute break
- Front parking spot for 1 week
- Lunch ordered in
- Box of chocolates
- Paid day off
- Gift Card (perhaps to their favourite coffee shop?)
- Flowers
You might even have a list of benefits and let your employee choose their reward.