You don’t need fancy perks to motivate employees

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We love our culture and ‘growing our own’ but that doesn’t mean we’ll offer to freeze eggs for female employees like Apple does. We also don’t provide nap pods, oil changes, or concierge services like Google. And as a Crown corporation, beer will never be on tap in our cafeterias like it is at Hootsuite (not that there’s anything wrong with beer).

Frankly, the BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC) doesn’t participate in the seemingly endless competition to provide headline-grabbing perks for our employees. But we still have incredibly high levels of employee engagement that even rival numbers from the latest tech start-ups. Read More…

 

You don’t need fancy perks to motivate employees