Companies upping their work perks

employees to bring a pet to work.

LYNC Logistics in Chattanooga, Tenn., features a golden retriever named LeBron as its chief happiness officer. “His sole purpose is to make everyone who walks in our doors happy,” says the company.

Book it

Punch, a cyber-operations firm based in Ashburn, Va., offers its 22 employees an unlimited reading account with Amazon. Employees can order any book they’d like, no matter the topic for free.

The company says it helps promote personal development and is widely used, and loved, by team members.

Transitioning help

Often, gender-transition procedures are not covered by insurance.

That is why Chicago-based employee communication software company Jellyvision, which guides customers through insurance-benefit decisions, offers up to $2,500 to any employee who is going through gender transition to help pay for medical expenses that aren’t covered.

Mind matters

Sixty-five percent of our best workplaces hold regular stress-relief breaks, and some of them are particularly notable mental refreshers.

Enigma Technologies, a data-management and intelligence company in New York, stocks its office with musical instruments and pays for staff to book time at a local recording studio.

At Trinity Packaging Supply in Vorhees, N.J., ping-pong lessons with a former world champion are on the table. And at the new headquarters for United Shore, a Pontiac, Mich.-based mortgage lender, CEO Mat Ishbia, a former Michigan State hoops star, installed a full-size basketball court. Cameron Albert-Deitch is Inc.com’s assistant editor.