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By: Worksnaps How Millenials Are Making Flexible Benefits Possible, Sarah Landrum, Forbes.com It's no secret by now that the world's in the midst of great changes, and many of them are driven by millennials coming of age. Thanks to today's widely-available technologies, we're enjoying opportunities for work and play that wouldn't have been possible for a previous generation. Working From Home It might not be a "right," but working from home is certainly a positive and beneficial thing — for employee and employer alike. Working from home reduces a company's overhead and can help employees improve productivity and morale, since familiar surroundings foster peace-of-mind. Flexible Hours We're finding there are fewer and fewer reasons to stick to the familiar nine-to-five scheduling paradigm that's shaped so many decades of economic progress. Put more simply, it just makes good sense to let employees follow a less rigid schedule. Emergencies happen. So do children, appointments, dates and impromptu sushi outings with friends. Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave We've been operating under the false assumption that when given the opportunity to slack off, people will abuse that opportunity. The thing is, formal studies reveal that folks who are free to pursue their obligations and interests on their own terms will pleasantly surprise you almost every time. Countries as near as Canada are even testing the theory that providing a basic universal income would free our schedules and minds to pursue innovation, improve ourselves, learn new skills, start businesses, invent things and generally engage in turning the wheels of progress. So far, things look promising. Read More: https://blog.worksnaps.com/ End
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