In today's competitive job market, attracting and retaining top talent requires more than just a good salary. Companies are increasingly offering unique and innovative benefits that go beyond traditional health insurance and retirement plans. From unlimited vacation days to on-site wellness programs and even pet-friendly offices, these perks are designed to enhance employee satisfaction, well-being, and productivity.
We’ve rounded up some of the coolest and most creative benefits offered by companies that are redefining what it means to be a great place to work. Whether you're a job seeker looking for your next opportunity or a business owner seeking inspiration to improve your own company's perks, you'll find plenty of ideas to motivate and inspire you.
Companies That Offer Cool Benefits
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Duolingo
Duolingo, the language-learning app, is one of the biggest success stories out of Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem. They offer amazing benefits and a positive, supportive work environment. A few of Duolingo’s stellar benefits include mental health memberships and 8 free therapy sessions a year, generous time off that includes a fully-paid sabbatical after 10 years, backup child care, a $20,000 lifetime benefit to be used toward family planning services with Carrot, and so much more.
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Signal Advisors
Signal Advisors is on a mission to solve the retirement crisis. One of the best places to work in Detroit, Sign offers cool benefits like wellness stipends, work-from-home stipends, local lunch stipends to support local businesses, an unlimited book budget, summer Fridays and more.
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AccumTech
AccumTech builds custom technology to help simplify the data exchange process for healthcare service providers. They have a fun and exciting culture that supports team members inside and outside the office. Some of their cool benefits include access to onsite amenities at their office on Domino’s Farms campus like a petting zoo, walking trails, putting green and free gym. They also have a fun employee rewards program that allows employees to recognize each other for a job well done and get cash-rewards for it.
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RIVET
RIVET is building labor ops software for construction contractors, helping make construction an industry of choice for a new generation entering the workforce. They work a hybrid schedule out of their cool office space in Detroit and have fun benefits like, team lunches that are catered or at local Detroit restaurants, and fun events like trips to the Detroit Historical Museum and scavenger hunts.
GreenLancer
Detroit-based GreenLancer is the only online marketplace to get standardized, quality design and engineering solutions with speed, scale and reliability. They have some cool benefits that include performance-based bonuses, cell phone allowances, work-from-home setup and mentorship.
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Plinqit
Plinqit is a Michigan-based, innovative FinTech company serving banks and credit unions across the country, with the goal of helping them to easily and cost-effectively introduce new services for attracting and retaining customers. They offer wellness stipends in the form of partial gym membership reimbursement, health plans that cover a portion of mental health visits, reimbursement for professional development, off-site summits and more.
XenomatiX
XenomatiX specializes in the development of true solid-state lidar technology, enabling applications such as pavement scanning and self-driving vehicles. This global tech company has offices around the world, including Detroit. XenomatiX offers workplace flexibility, learning opportunities, and fun perks like its Bike to Work Plan, which encourages employees to pedal their way to the office, promoting a healthy lifestyle and reducing carbon footprints. They provide facilities like bike storage, showers and financial support to help you purchase an electric bike.
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Atomic Object
Founded in Grand Rapids in 2001, Atomic Object creates custom software products for web, mobile, desktop, and devices. With additional offices in Ann Arbor, Chicago, and Raleigh, Atomic is consistently recognized as a top workplace for its employee-driven approach to culture and work. As a 100% employee-owned, certified B Corp, Atomic Object is a unique and rewarding place to work. Atoms benefit from profit sharing, paid professional development, a sustainable working pace, transparent leadership, and open-book company finances. Outside of working hours, Atoms enjoy quarterly parties and monthly “Spin Down” happy hours, as well as an internal conference, Atomic Con, where over 100 Atoms spend the weekend learning and bonding with each other.
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Reltio
Reltio’s AI-powered data unification and management capabilities transform siloed data from disparate sources into unified, trusted, and interoperable data. As a top workplace, Reltio offers cool benefits like no-cost medical, dental and vision benefits; recharge weeks to encourage and support employee wellness, allowing time for relaxation and rejuvenation; continuous learning and development opportunities; and family growth benefits through Carrot.
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Kyte
Kyte unlocks the freedom to go places by delivering a car for any trip longer than a ride share. A few cool benefits Kyte employees love include a $75 monthly flexible wellness benefit, an annual work-from-home stipend for remote employees, annual company-wide offsite event, and an annual learning and development budget.
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Formstack
Formstack is a workplace productivity solution built to transform the way people collect information and put it to work. Often recognized as one of the best places to work in Indianapolis, Formstack offers coole benefits like half-day Fridays to prevent burnout, a $100 monthly home office allowance, and a $100 monthly wellness allowance. Another great benefit that keeps employees fresh and recharged is a 4-week sabbatical after 5 years of service.
Flatfile
Flatfile provides developers with an easy, fast, and secure way to build an ideal solution for importing CSV, Excel, or other data-files, without compromising on flexibility. A few unique benefits for Flatfile employees include a $10,000 home office makeover, fully covered healthcare, and 10-year equity exercise window.
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Pangea Money Transfer
Pangea offers a smarter way for people to move money around the world to friends and family. Founded in 2012, Pangea started with a mission to revolutionize the remittance industry by providing customers a powerful, easy-to-use mobile application to send money internationally. Employee perks include company-sponsored events, a sabbatical program where eligible employees get 30 days of paid sabbatical after their first 4 years of working at the company, and lunch and Learns to help support employee growth.
Reverb
Reverb, an Etsy company, is an online marketplace for buying and selling musical instruments and gear. The company supports its employees through employer paid health benefits, 401k matching/pension contributions, 18 weeks of gender neutral parental leave, a work-from-home stipend and remote flexibility, mental health benefits and more.
Pantomath
Pantomath is a data pipeline observability and traceability platform for automating data operations. It continuously monitors datasets and jobs across the enterprise data ecosystem providing context to complex data pipelines by creating automated cross-platform technical pipeline lineage. Pantomath offers unique benefits such as a complimentary fitness center membership and EV charging stations at HQ.
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ConstructConnect
ConstructConnect’s collaborative network empowers the construction industry to be more successful with access to relevant information through easy to use technology. ConstructConnect offers an open paid time off policy, paid time to volunteer, and unique benefits like pet bereavement.
Powerschool
PowerSchool is the leading K-12 education technology provider of solutions that improve the education experience for 100 million students, teachers, and parents in over 70 countries around the world. This remote-first company offers cool benefits like Paid Community and Volunteer Time Off (VTO); a wellness program that includes ClassPass, an Employee Assistance Program, and an onsite gym; tuition reimbursement, pet insurance and more.
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CoverMyMeds
Based in Columbus, Ohio, CoverMyMeds uses technology to help people get the medicine they need to live healthier lives. They have a large campus with an excellent office space and many additional cool benefits: adoption assistance, scholarships for employee’s children, a volunteer program, a program to match donations, and more.
OneStream
OneStream Software is a large tech company focused on corporate management software for enterprises in manufacturing, life sciences, the public sector, and financial services. Their cool company benefits include family-friendly options like paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility coverage; an internet and cell phone stipend; flexible paid parental leave for birth, adoption, fostering; 2 annual paid volunteer days, and more.
CareRev
CareRev is a technology platform empowering healthcare professionals to take control of their careers. CareRev provides a direct line between healthcare facilities and local clinical talent, cutting out the middleman and enabling professionals to work where and when they want. This remote company offers company-wide summer Fridays, a home office setup stipend, a monthly work-from-home stipend, and a winter break from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day.
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Strive Health
Through a unique combination of high-touch care teams, advanced technology, seamless integration with local providers, and next-generation dialysis services, Strive Health develops integrated kidney care systems. They care about their patients’ health and their employees’ health. That’s why they offer two annual Strive-wide well-being days off so you can focus on your well-being. In addition, Strivers have access to Peloton and two full-service Employee Assistance Programs. Other cool benefits include paid sabbatical leave (4 weeks) and paid living-donor leave (8 weeks). Strive also partners with Carrot Fertility to provide reproductive and adoption support. The fertility benefits include a dedicated support team and resource library on fertility health, IVF, pregnancy, menopause, male-factor infertility, adoption, surrogacy and more.
Resident
Resident is a house of direct-to-consumer brands in the home goods space. They are a remote-first company in the US and also operate a manufacturing facility in Indiana. They offer “Take what you need” PTO, wellness benefits, a work-from-home office and cell phone/internet stipend. But their most unique benefit has to be the free mattress and the awesome Friends and Family discount.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is the leading connectivity cloud company that empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. This large tech company offers some pretty cool benefits: commuter spending accounts, fertility and family forming benefits, on-demand mental health support, and more.
