Every company can offer a reward similar to what is offered in this Pioneer Press story – Time off is a great summer motivator at small businesses. Simple. Valued. This is a good approach for any business in developing reward programs especially for Gen Y workers (emphasis mine):
Owners do have other ways of motivating staffers in the summer, by catering breakfasts or lunches or sponsoring picnics, trips to museums and other social events. The point is to help make working during the summer more palatable, and, more important, to boost morale in a way that will result in increased productivity all year long.
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Besides improving morale and motivating workers, summer perks like time off will help a company hire and keep good staffers.
His company allows its 53 employees to leave at 1 p.m. on eight of 12 Fridays during the summer. The company also has an outing each summer; this year, it’s a three-hour cruise out of Annapolis.
And towards the end of the article is some sage advice in the modern-day market:
“You attract and keep people not just by salary … but by giving people some flexibility and recognition that they have lives outside of work.”