Emotional salary: a balance between professional and personal life

The Emotional Salary has become increasingly relevant to both workers and companies. Progressively, there are more workers choosing their new jobs according to the characteristics and benefits that not only deal with the salary. Aspects such as work-life balance taken on relevance.

According to a news publication by La Tercera, “employees with more than 20 benefits in the workplace, such as extra vacation or leaving early, improve their job satisfaction in relation to those who have less than 10 (benefits)”. This has meant a great challenge for companies, and has become, at the same time, the best strategy to attract and retain talent.

For this reason, the Depósito Central de Valores (DCV) has paid special attention for a long time to the added value that can be offered to employees beyond the material aspect. This is pointed out by Sandra Valenzuela, DCV’ Human Resources Manager..

Sandra Valenzuela: DCV’s commitment beyond salary

Incorporating new talent and maintaining our employees’ commitment not only depends on the salary and benefits offered, it is also about the pride of belonging, familiarity and trust we have achieved and want to maintain; similarly, it is about the good work relationships and fellowship in the workplace; it is about the appreciation and the experiences that we enjoy while working in a diverse and inclusive company, which provides growth and learning possibilities. Everything that has been described above is the emotional salary.

That is why, within the Total Compensation offered by our company, there are non-cash benefits, which are related to the time benefits our employees value and that allows them to balance their professional and personal lives. Among them, a flexible schedule, extra vacation time during the low season, a free afternoon on your birthday, free days when moving, when taking a degree examination or when accompanying -without restriction- a hospitalized child; and the recently announced benefit: “time with purpose”, through which DCV employees can apply for a leave of absence for up to 3 months to carry out a personal or study project. The foregoing, without affecting their seniority and while maintaining - in some cases, a percentage of their salary.

Another important part of our offer are the benefits that make our employees feel happy while working. We celebrate all the significant dates and we have a Quality of Life Program that surprises employees with recreational activities, healthy snacks, express massages, preventive health exams, active breaks, Zumba classes, among others.

Finally, we encourage all of our employees to access these opportunities, so they can expand their knowledge and skills. Thus, we have a Scholarship Program and an annual training plan consistent with DCV’ strategies, in addition to promoting practices such as lateral career development, empowerment, increased responsibilities and multidisciplinary teams. Thus allowing them to acquire additional skills that enable them to enrich the content of their jobs positions.

What we seek with the “emotional salary” is the creation of the “employee experience”, which goes beyond basic traditional benefits. The first thing is getting to know our employees very well, so we can offer them a totally personalized experience that can add value to them.

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