Zero Perks As Requested
My company let employees clock paid hours while petting the office cats, take unlimited vacation, and skip the time clock altogether.
For a while, people called us a dream company. Then one of my employees posted online and accused the whole thing of being a kindness trap.
He filmed the office as if it were paradise, but the caption told a different story: [Don't envy us. All of this was bought with our low pay and our youth.]
The post went viral, and overnight, I became the fake-nice boss who bled his employees dry behind a mask of small kindnesses.
The entire internet told my employees to run.
Fine. I let them.
I rolled out a new policy. Effective immediately, every flexible benefit