Imagine your employer offers you a month-long paid vacation. But here’s the best part – if you travel to a country you’ve never visited before, your employer will cover most of your travel expenses, plus the expenses of your lucky travel companion. That’s what health tech company Epic Systems offers its 5-year employees. Then there’s Starbucks. Recently the coffee chain announced an expansion to its college tuition program. Now it will cover a full four years of college tuition for employees to the online Arizona State University.
What both of these companies are doing reflects the message in local author and social psychologist Dr. Ron Friedman’s book, The Best Place to Work: The Art & Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace. On this segment on Need to Know he shares some of the surprising findings of his research and the benefits of investing in employees.