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3 benefits to steal from the tech industry

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Restaurants are stealing a page out of Silicon Valley’s book filled with unheard-of benefits and annotating it to fit the industry framework. 

  1. Zimbra, a software company in Buffalo, N.Y., gives employees paid vacation and flexible hours to volunteer.
  2. Twilio, a cloud communications company in San Francisco, offers  its personnel a Kindle and $30 each month to spend on books. 
  3. Addepar, an analytics company in Mountain View, Calif., subsidizes breast and ovarian cancer gene screening for female workers.

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