The salary survey by Platy.sk and Platy.cz indicates that in 2011, nearly two thirds (64 %) of Slovak employees and over three quarters (77 %) of Czech employees were granted non-cash benefits. The most common benefit in Slovakia (23%) was flexible working hours. The second most common bonus was private use of company mobile phones (20 %), used roughly by the same percentage of employees as free drinks in workplace (20 %) (Platy.sk, 2012).
By contrast, the most common benefit in the Czech Republic in 2011 were meal tickets (44 %), followed by flexible working hours (26 %), and extra holiday (26 %) ranking third (Platy.cz, 2012).