Wacky Employee Perks 五花八门的雇员额外福利

英语学习点: Phrases About Work-Life Balance 有关工作与生活平衡的词语

Can perks really motivate and retain employees?

Lunchtime Botox anyone?

Would $25,000 (164,000 yuan) for IVF treatment be helpful?

How about an on-site nursery place... for your pet?

Fortune Magazine has revealed that top companies offer some pretty fancy perks to attract employees.

Staff sweeteners include a Latin-style dance exercise called Zumba to improve employee well-being and motivation.

Really stressed-out employees may develop frown lines. But at one company staff whose faces are showing the strain can have Botox treatment during their lunch break at the company's own clinic.

Another company offers the corporate jet to bereaved employees, while one employer gives staff who are finding it difficult to get pregnant $25,000 towards IVF treatment.

But for the business commentator Lucy Kellaway, some companies go too far in trying to help employees achieve a good work-life balance.

"Such benefits, even the nice ones, are all pretty creepy" she says. "There ought to exist a boundary between employer and employee - between home and work. And Botox and IVF are a long way on the wrong side of it."

For Ms Kellaway, the real proof of a top employer is not its touchy-feely benefits but whether staff choose to stay put for a long time.