Employees In Corporate India Having A Ball

It seems that more and more modern companies are making quite a song and dance about motivating their employees. From fun and games at work to sponsored dates and massages, work hard and play harder appears to be the mantra. In fact, companies like IT education giant NIIT don''t mind playing cupid. Once a year, staffers get a cool Rs 3,000 as dating allowance for a special occasion, and that too no strings attached.

For us a dating allowance is just a label. That''s a day on which if you are married, you renew your relationships and take your spouse out. If you are a bachelor, you can have a good time with friends. But the dating label creates a lot of excitement among young people, said M Rajendran, COO, NIIT. Not surprisingly, the employees are not complaining. But 25-year-old HR executive Ritesh Chutani says that this is different from dating in college.

In college you think whether to go a costly hotel or not, but here the company is paying for your date. You can go to a movie and visit a restaurant of your choice, said Ritesh Chutani.

Besides this, modern companies are increasingly deciding to go with the flow and invest in their employees'' interests.

For instance, when a group of like-minded techies approached their bosses at the Bangalore based Tavant Technologies and wanted to form a music band, there was some hesitation but only for a fleeting moment.

The authorities not just gave us the money to buy the equipment but also a place in the office where we could jam, Kapil Pandit, Tavant Technologies.

Deadlines are everywhere. But here, we work and leave. Something like a band helps us work better. It is cathartic. It helps you work better and get through the week, said Swetanshu, Tavant Technologies.