Every fifth employee receives drinks, education and flexible working hours as part of the benefits. This emerged from a survey by the Platy.sk portal, which monitored the granting of benefits in the first half of 2013. The most frequently provided benefit is free drinks, followed by education and flexible working hours. Two out of three employees receive at least one of these non-financial benefits. The most frequently awarded benefit of drinks, such as coffee, tea or mineral water, is received by approximately one in five employees at the workplace. One in five employees is given the opportunity to choose the working hours that suit them best, as well as education.
| Benefit | Share (1st half of 2013) |
| Free drinks (coffee, tea, mints,…) | 22% |
| Education | 21% |
| Flexible working hours | 20% |
| Mobile phone for private purposes | 18% |
| Notebook also for private purposes | 14% |
| Employee discounts | 14% |
| Corporate actions | 12% |
| Pension savings contribution | 12% |
| Extra vacation | 10% |
| Diet beyond the scope of the law | 10% |
| Work from home | 9% |
| Sick day, paid time off for recovery | 7% |
| Car also for private purposes | 6% |
| Reimbursement of transportation to work | 5% |
| Reimbursement of sports and cultural activities | 5% |
| Superior health care | 4% |
| Health insurance | 3% |
| Housing allowance | 1% |
“Employees working in offices have free drinks at the workplace. Most often, benefit drinks at the workplace are available to people in companies from information technology and telecommunications, from companies that operate in the field of law and other services,” said Platy.sk survey project manager Miroslav Draveck
Employees of shared service centers, telecommunications and banking are generously compensated Employees in shared service centers are generously compensated in the form of benefits, where only 8% of employees have no benefits. Their non-financial benefits include education, working from home, prepaid leave for recovery, a laptop for private purposes, or various employee discounts. Generosity did not miss the telecommunications, banking or power industry and information technology sectors, where employees can enjoy benefits such as a mobile phone for private purposes, extra vacations, prepaid transport to work, housing allowances or health insurance.
Industries providing the most benefits:
On the contrary, roughly half of the people working in the social care sector, wood industry or textile production have no benefit.
Employees of the state administration will enjoy the most vacations beyond the scope of the law, and employees of hotels, boarding houses and hostels have marked the housing allowance as their benefit. Flexible working hours are most often used by people working in information technology, and employees of telecommunications and personnel consulting also have a mobile phone for private purposes. Employees of the automotive industry most often receive prepayment for transportation to work, and employees of the chemical industry receive health insurance.