on 2012/07/12 by World News in Business, Comments (0)

Start-up Offers Workers $7,500 to Take a Break

Amid a competitive market5 Meaningful Ways to Motivate Employees. Read more ... » for tech2 New Tricks for Hiring Tech Talent. Read more ... » workers, extravagant employee perksHost a Company Picnic: 5 Reasons. Read more ... » are back on the tableYour Perks Aren't Motivating Your Employees. Read more ... ».

One start-up has just upped the stakes in the recruitingYour Recruiting Brand; Why It Really Matters. Read more ... » battle for high-tech talentWould You Let Your Employees Job Hunt?. Read more ... ».

FullContact, a Denver technologyHave Tech Start-ups Lost Their Sense of Fun?. Read more ... » company, recently announced this changeVacation Sabotage: Don’t Let It Happen to You!. Read more ... » to its vacationVacation Sabotage: Don’t Let It Happen to You!. Read more ... » policy: Go away, get off the grid, and get paid $7,500 to do it.

Dubbed “paid, paid vacation” by company CEO Bart Lorang, employeesYour Perks Aren't Motivating Your Employees. Read more ... » can get the moneySnag the Brightest Young Talent (It's not About the Money). Read more ... » to pay4 Top Myths About Startup Pay. Read more ... » for their trip away, as long as they completely disconnect from work2 New Tricks for Hiring Tech Talent. Read more ... ».

Lorang explained the generous vacation policy on the company’s blog:

If people know they will be disconnecting and going off the grid for an extended period of time, they might actually keep that in mind as they help build the company. … At the end of the dayFoxconn denies workers went on strike at plant. Read more ... », the company will improve.

FullContact is hardly the first technology company to try to lure talent with sweet perksYour Perks Aren't Motivating Your Employees. Read more ... ». During the last dotcom boom, tech companies broke new ground by offeringFacebook falls to half of public offering price. Read more ... » concierge services, massage therapists, dry cleaning, and other freebies; GoogleHave Tech Start-ups Lost Their Sense of Fun?. Read more ... »’s food offerings were so generous that new workers reportedly began to complain about the “Google 15.”

Now benefits packages are again in the spotlight. Here are a few other offers we’ve been hearing about.

Paid parental leave and “baby cash”: FaceHost a Company Picnic: 5 Reasons. Read more ... »book offers several perks, such as free meals three times a day, 21 days’ paid vacation, and 100% health coverage. But it seems the Menlo Park, California-based company has a particular <a href="http://www.facebook.com/careers/benefits” target=”_blank”>soft spot for parents, offering four months of paid parental leave, reimbursement for daycare and adoption fees, and $4,000 “baby cash” for the new arrival.

Relaxation and pet care: To keep its workers inspired and creative, social game maker ZyngaZynga Unveils New Social Gaming Network. Read more ... » has “relaxation lounges” stocked with different gamingPlay to Win: 5 Ways to Make Money From Mobile Games. Read more ... » systems and arcade games. EmployeeWould You Let Your Employees Job Hunt?. Read more ... » pets also get onsite grooming, USA Today reports. The gaming company also provides onsite massages, haircuts, reflexology, and acupuncture.

Paid, month-long sabbaticals: RedHow I Find and Hire the World's Best Employees. Read more ... » Frog Events, a Chicago-based company that boasts of having the “world’s best benefits,” pays for employees to take a month-long sabbatical to Africa, Asia, Europe, or South America–with any one other person or a spouse and children. (It also offers a free birthday massage and unlimited vacation days.)