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Currently, the law mandates only firms with more than 20 workers need to enroll in the Employee Provident Fund, which requires contributions from both employer and employees.

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“I think that is really helpful because you’re always learning something new, and it allows you to gain new skills that you can use right now in the role you’re in or build skills that could be helpful a couple years down the road.”

Furthermore, incentives and “benefits should be viewed strategically, focusing on how benefits especially help organizations achieve their strategic goals” ( Werner and Balkin 2021, p. 8).

Apple recently paused plans to call salaried workers back to the office for at least three days a week as COVID-19 cases rose in California.

To draw an illustration of a combined approach: Referencing benefits to the market could be used for traditional benefits (such as pensions or health insurance) that have been seen to have no effect on perceived organizational support (Muse and Wadsworth 2012); nontraditional benefits that have been found to have an impact on perceived organizational support (Muse and Wadsworth 2012) such as food allowances or activities for dependents could make up the menu of flexible benefits; benefits in the form of working tools (such as private use of personal phone or car) could work to support a particular business strategy of availability of services in support of customer intimacy; and finally, new and rich work-life balance benefits, which have proven to have a positive effect on employees (Muse et al. 2008), could be introduced as identity claims for an organization that aims to be perceived as caring, empathetic and humane.

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Explore Learning Options In today’s competitive talent market, offering attractive retirement plans can tip the balance when recruiting and retaining great employees.