The Top Stress-Reducing Benefits

Generous benefits can help lower workplace stress, according to two University of Michigan law professors who looked at the benefits of the “best companies to work for.”

Among the top benefits offered to lower workplace stress are:

• Subsidized health care classes and health club memberships.
• Onsite fitness centers.
• Flextime.
• Telecommuting.
• Employer-paid health care premiums.
• Onsite medical and dental clinics.
• Paid leave and special services for new parent employees.
• Laundry and dry-cleaning services.
• Valet parking.
• Grocery delivery.
• Discounted tickets to after-hours social activities such as movies, plays, museums, sports events, and amusement parks.

Did you know?
Fifty-three percent of employees have never taken advantage of their company’s work-life benefits (although 64 percent of men and women rank flexible hours among the top five work-life benefits), according to a Corporate Executive Board report.