Survey: is your company a “dream company”?

It is well known that many large IT corporations create such conditions for work that employees begin to call their place of employment a "dream company." It is believed that today, in the context of a constant need for motivated, thinking employees, a different approach is already irrational. But it is one thing for a corporation with millions of revenues, and another for small and medium-sized businesses.

I want to ask you a request. Let’s try to summarize information about how small companies motivate employees with elements of the “dream company” concept. How can this be done in the framework of a small budget, limited time and administrative resources?

Tell us about the methods of stimulation adopted by you. Free dinners? Lounge areas with sofas and game consoles? Free gym memberships? Payment for seminars and trainings you would like to attend? How, in general, is the system of similar motivation arranged for you? Why, how long? What were the prerequisites for its creation?

If your company doesn’t have anything like that, do you think it is necessary? If so, what could it be, and how would this innovation affect the efficiency of the company, in your opinion?

I would be grateful for the detailed comments. And based on the results of the discussion and the information gathered, I will write an article where I will try to summarize everything and give direct recommendations to company executives on how to effectively build their “dream companies” within the framework of lifting budgets. Thank you in advance!