免费零食咖啡、给职员报销干洗费打车钱、甚至女孩来例假放一天假……各种公司福利五花八门，叫人心动。而英国有一家公司，无论是孩子离开家、自己搬新家、还是生日，都给职员放假。这不，他们又增添了一项新福利，就是“宠物陪护假”。
谷歌 gives its staff unlimited free ice cream, while drugs giant Johnson Johnson pays for its workers’ dry cleaning.
Google企业的职员可以无限量地取用免费冰淇淋，医疗巨头强生公司为职员付干洗费。
Now, a UK firm is offering employees another novel benefit: ‘peternity leave’ – a day off when they buy a new dog, cat or horse to help the animal settle into their new home.
现在，一家英国公司为职员提供了一项新福利：“宠物陪护假”，当职员购买了一只新的狗狗、宠物猫或者小马驹时可以请一天假，帮助它们适应新家。
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the firm behind the scheme is Pets At Home, which is introducing the policy for its 8,200 staff – 95 percent of whom are pet-owners – from next month.
推出这一新福利的是宠物居家公司，这或许并不让人意料之外。8200名职员将从下月开始享遭到这项新政，其中95%的人有宠物。
Chief executive Ian Kellett said: ‘We want to help and support key events in a colleague’s life.
总裁伊恩说：“大家想在职员的生活要紧事件中给予帮助和支持。”
‘We already give a “flying the nest day” when a child leaves home, a “new roost day” when you move home, and you get your birthday off as a holiday too. Peternity leave fits right into those.’
“当子女离开家时，大家给职员放‘离家假’，搬家时有‘温锅假’，职员过生日当天也有假。宠物陪护假是新的一种。”
He insisted that the extra day’s paid leave was ‘not a gimmick’, adding: ‘We know that if you have a new dog, cat or horse it can be quite stressful.
他坚称多给一天带薪假期并非噱头，“大家了解家新添了一只狗狗，宠物猫或者小马驹时，大家会感到紧张。”
‘We want to give them an extra day to settle in. It fits into our ethos – we recognise the importance of pets.’
“大家期望多给职员一天假，来安置宠物。这符合大家的理念---大家了解宠物的重要程度。”
