Portugal: Employee Perks: Customary and Trending Employee Benefit Perks in Portugal

Portugal: Employee Perks: Customary and Trending Employee Benefit Perks in PortugalArticle provided by Asinta’s Portuguese Partner VisaVis.

In Portugal perks are meant to balance personal and professional life, which does not have a direct correspondence to the most common benefits including:

  • Meal tickets/cards (66%)

  • Medical insurance (64%)

  • Mobile phone for personal use (61%)

  • Cafeteria (62%)

Looking for alternative benefits is something that companies have increasingly done during the period of the country’s financial crisis as a way to attract talent without having very high permanent costs. Perks were seen as an interesting alternative to compensation salary stagnation and have become very important for recruiting.

Trending perks are:

  • Medical Insurance

  • Training

  • Flex time

  • Automobile for personal use

  • Working from home