Bulk delivery company Boxed just announced it's offering weddings as a job perk: They will pay for employees' weddings up to $20,000.
"We don't do free meals, we don't do $10,000 happy hours, we're lean all around," Chieh Huang, CEO and cofounder of Boxed, told Inc. "We don't have extravagant salaries, but we focus on a few fringe benefits."
Huang says he was inspired after hearing about Marcel Graham, a 26-year-old working in the company's New Jersey fulfillment center. Graham's mom was ill and he wanted to marry his fiancée as soon as possible so his mother could attend. Grab the tissues for the touching announcement:
The company also offers unlimited maternity and paternity leave. And Huang announced last year that the company will pay college tuition for employees' kids out of his own pocket.
Weddings will be paid for with company money, though. And as Quartz points out, the company is investing in perks instead of raising salaries. For example, the outlet reports that the company's warehouse employees are paid $14 an hour.
"Building culture is a money-saver over time," Huang told Quartz. He estimates about 10 percent of employees will take advantage of the wedding offer.
So what if you don't want to get married or just aren't into the idea of a wedding? And what if you don't want to have kids? It seems employees that aren't traditional-minded are left out of the fun — and funds.
Huang insists he's not getting complaints though.
"No one has said, 'Oh, I don't have kids or I'm not getting married, so how is this benefiting me?'" he said. "People have really bought into the team and the mission, and I haven't heard any complaints."
And, in fact, the company reports that only five employees have left since it launched in 2013.
Stay tuned to see if other companies get wedding fever.
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