8 Companies In Canada With Perks Like Unlimited Vacation & Travel Deals That Have Jobs Open
There are a lot of unique employee benefits and job perks that companies in Canada offer workers.
You can find positions with perks like unlimited vacation, travel discounts, four-day workweeks, money to buy a house and more!
These jobs are available in tech, sales, aviation, construction, marketing, and customer service.
Companies with unlimited vacation, remote work, travel discounts, and more job perks include Air Canada, Google, Crozier, Alida, Blackbird Interactive, and the government of Canada.
If you're interested in working somewhere with incredible benefits for employees, here are eight jobs with unique perks that are available at companies in Canada right now!
Flight Attendants
Salary: $28.85 an hour
Location: Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC
Company: Air Canada
Who Should Apply: Air Canada is looking for people who are safety-minded, naturally empathetic, confident in speaking publicly, at least 18 years old, and available during irregular working hours.
Also, you need a valid Canadian passport that allows travel to all countries served by Air Canada to get hired.
You also must be willing to participate in a full-time eight-week Air Canada Flight Attendant training program in Montreal or Vancouver and then relocate to Toronto or Vancouver for the job.
The airline shared that it has "one of the most generous employee travel programs in the airline industry."
Air Canada offers employees and their immediate family members special rates on airfare and discounts on car rentals, hotel accommodations, vacation packages and tour operators through the airline's partners.
XDEV Business Development Lead
Location: Vancouver, BC
Company: Blackbird Interactive
Who Should Apply: To get hired, you need five years of experience related to the position (preferably in video games, tech, or entertainment), an established network within the video game industry, and the ability to close sales deals.
Also, you must be willing to travel as required to meet partners and prospective clients.
Blackbird Interactive, which is a video game development studio in Vancouver, offers employees a four-day workweek.
There are no reductions to salaries even though there's one less working day in the week.
Not only that, but the four-day workweek doesn't require employees to work longer hours so everyone gets the equivalent of an extra 40 paid vacation days each year!
Apply with Blackbird Interactive
Senior UX Researcher, Google Cloud
Location: Toronto, ON
Company: Google
Who Should Apply: Google is looking to hire someone with a bachelor's degree in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, statistics, psychology, anthropology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Five years of experience in an applied research setting, experience with research design utilizing various methods, and relevant product research experience in an end-to-end, usability, or generative setting are required as well.
Google's employee perks include a hybrid work model that includes four "work from anywhere" weeks every year.
Assistant Contract Administrator, Construction
Location: Bradford, ON
Company: Crozier
Who Should Apply: To get hired, you need a minimum of eight years of experience in civil construction inspection and exposure to contract administration.
You also need experience in civil construction inspections in the land development industry, knowledge of design standards, specifications and materials associated with construction, established working relationships with municipalities, and a valid G license with access to a vehicle.
Crozier is a consulting engineering firm that offers a job perk called the home purchase assistance benefit.
With that benefit, the company supports employees who want to become homeowners by providing up to $20,000 to eligible first-time home buyers.
Apply with Crozier
Manager, Sales
Location: Toronto, ON
Company: HubSpot
Who Should Apply: HubSpot is hiring someone who has four years of experience leading and coaching a Canadian sales team, three years of software sales experience, experience leading a consultative sales process, and experience using CRM to manage and forecast sales opportunities.
At this software developer company, employees can choose how they want to work whether that be remote, hybrid or in-office work.
HubSpot has job perks including unlimited vacation and a company-wide week of rest.
There is also a four-week paid sabbatical and a sabbatical bonus available after you've been working with HubSpot for five years. That means you get an extra month off work!
Digital Marketing Coordinator
Salary: $41,000 to $45,000
Location: Calgary, AB
Company: LoKnow
Who Should Apply: You need one to two years of marketing experience along with a degree or certificate in marketing, advertising, business administration, or a related field.
LoKnow, which is part of Know Company Inc., offers a hybrid model that lets employees work from home, in the office, or a combination of both.
You get unlimited vacation — up to four weeks at a time — and you can also work from anywhere for up to four weeks at a time with this job.
Narcity chatted with Anna Michele, the vice president of people and brand at Know Company Inc., about the company's paid unlimited vacation policy.
"For us, it is an unlimited number of days per year within some policy guidelines," the executive noted.
If somebody has taken less vacation in the year than their co-workers, execs will follow up with that employee and make sure they have the opportunity to take time off, Michele revealed.
Apply with LoKnow
Cyber Security Practitioners
Salary: $97,416 to $132,114
Location: Ottawa, ON
Company: Communications Security Establishment
Who Should Apply: To get hired for this government of Canada job, you need a university degree in a field related to the position such as computer science, and engineering or a college diploma in a field related to the position.
Experience designing, creating, testing, or deploying IT security solutions and IT programs or technical systems along with experience providing advice and recommendations in IT is required.
You could be able to work from home for part of the week but the two CSE offices in Ottawa have unique perks for employees.
One of the locations offers employees:
- on-site coffee shop
- cafeteria that includes a wood-burning pizza oven
- sand volleyball court
- basketball court
- multipurpose field (for ultimate frisbee, soccer, flag football, etc.)
- five kilometres of groomed walking trails
Also, the other CSE office location includes:
- sit-stand workstations
- kitchen and lounge areas on each floor
- on-site fitness facility that has cardio and weight machines
- access to the Rideau River Eastern Pathway multi-use trail
Senior Customer Success Manager
Location: Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC
Company: Alida
Who Should Apply: This job requires you to have a post-secondary degree, four to five years of experience in customer success, business development, management consulting or account management, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Alida is a software company that designs customer, user, product and brand experience platforms for businesses and companies.
This company offers unlimited vacation that employees can take whenever and however they want.
Narcity spoke with Tanya Jarrett, chief people officer at the company, to find out how Alida's unlimited time off policy works.
Jarrett said there haven't been "any significant drawbacks" that the company has experienced since unlimited vacation was introduced.
"While there's no sort of fixed amount, we really do encourage our employees to take around a minimum of four weeks per year," the executive revealed.
If employees need or want more time off during the year, they're still able to take vacation days beyond those four weeks that employees are encouraged to take.
All it depends on is advance notice to ensure that everyone is able to get time off whenever they want or need it.
Apply with Alida
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