The Employee Perks That Actually Work

By Krister Ungerbock

Ping-pong tables are not a recruitment strategy. Yet some members of leadership and human resource teams think setting up game rooms and throwing occasional pizza parties somehow make their organizations super attractive to potential talent. That's not the case.

Establish benefits that will actually matter to your employees, then share them with potential applicants you're recruiting to help turn them into new hires. It's tough enough to find good people: About half of human resource managers have job openings that are staying open longer than usual or that they can't fill because of a lack of qualified applicants.

Source Fool.com