--- title: Want to Attract a Millennial Worker? Give 'Em a Gift Card description: Millennial workers are more likely to stay with a company that offers shopping perks to stores like Amazon and Starbucks. authors: - name: Kristen Bahler role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/ bio: Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. Today, she leads Money's sponsored content channel and reader-favorite franchises like Best Places to Live and Best Places to Travel. education: Northeastern University, MA Journalism at_money_since: 2016 articles: 52 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-bahler/ published: '2016-10-28T13:12:51.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:56:09.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - gift cards - pubdesk - Workplace word_count: 307 canonical: https://money.com/millennial-worker-gift-card/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Shopping for a gift card on a digital tablet.](https://img.money.com/2016/10/gettyimages-493446640.jpg) Forget [unlimited vacation](https://money.com/unlimited-vacation-policy/?iid=sr-link1) and break room [ping pong tables](https://money.com/best-ping-pong-table/). The key to a millennial's heart, according to a new survey, is gift cards. About 69% of workers in the U.K. ages 18 to 24 peg their satisfaction at work to the perks and benefits their employers offer, according to a Perkbox survey of more than 1,000 British workers. Millennials seem to care more about these types of perks than their older cohorts -- only about 50% of baby boomers in the U.K. cite deep discounts to stores like Starbucks and Amazon as key to their workplace well-being, the survey says. “Millennials see this as something employers should do as standard, whereas older employees see it as a bonus,” Perkbox co-founder Saurav Chopra tells *[Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-28/the-secret-to-a-happy-millennial-is-an-amazon-gift-card).* A few companies are particularly good at rewarding their employees, Chopra says. Skyscanner, an Edinburgh-based flight comparison website, gives employees discounts at local food shops and hairdressers, for example. Airbnb provides employees with $2,000 a year to spend on the home-sharing site. In the U.S., [perks range](https://money.com/best-job-perks-benefits/?iid=sr-link1) from free ski passes to yearly book stipends. For employers under budgetary constraints, Chopra says a little can go a long way. “If money is tight, it can take the form of a simple thank you or a couple of extra paid days leave,” he says. Overall, about 30% of the respondents describe themselves as unhappy at work, the survey found. This on par with the U.S. -- out of a "happiness scale" of 100, most American employees rank at 71, according to research released by Robert Half on Thursday. There's still plenty room to improve: about one-third of the employees polled indicated they were thinking about leaving their jobs in the next six months. 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