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Our people are important to us. We do our best to take care of them, or more accurately, help them take care of themselves. The healthier and happier our employees are, the better they can support our customers. Benefits are available for employees, their spouses or domestic partners, and children of employees, spouses or domestic partners. Part-time employees working 20-29 hours a week are also eligible for benefits.
We offer a wide range of advantages from excellent benefits to competitive compensation; from exceptional training and growth opportunities to a safe and invigorating work environment; from excellent recognition programs to discounts and resources that help employees even when outside the office.
Sprint’s salary structure is competitive in the marketplace. Sprint provides an environment where employees are rewarded for their contributions, abilities and results. Our broad job categories with wide pay ranges emphasize development, encouraging our employees to expand their skills, accept new responsibilities and set aggressive challenges. This strategy helps to support our focus on customer service by reducing organizational layers between our front-line, customer-facing employees and our leadership, which speeds decision-making and empower employees.
Sprint benchmarks to median market values and targets pay structures with consideration to the specific job function as well as the unique skills, knowledge and ability of each person. Everyone is tethered to the success of the company through targeted common enterprise-wide success metrics and/or through sales goal incentive compensation programs. In addition, executives of the company reap greater rewards as the business succeeds through our long-term equity incentive plan. The mix of at-risk compensation elements increases as an executive moves from director into more senior officer ranks. Employees are paid bi-weekly.
Benefits are an important part of the partnership between an employer and its employees, and at Sprint, we offer a competitive selection of award-winning benefits that encourages healthy, responsible behavior for our employees and their dependents both on and off the job. At Sprint, our Total Reward program offers employees and their eligible dependents benefits and services to fit their diverse lifestyles. Sprint benefits include wireless phone service, heath care coverage, financial support, professional and career development, and many other options to address employee needs.
Sprint’s benefits include:
In total, benefits are available for 99.85% of Sprint’s workforce; they are available for all full-time employees (97% of Sprint’s workforce) and most part-time employees. Benefits are also available for employees' eligible dependents, including spouses, children, and same- and opposite-sex domestic partners. Sprint’s part-time employees (just 3% of the workforce currently) who are regularly scheduled to work between 20 and 39 hours per week, have access to all of the benefits that our full-time employees have with the exception of 3 programs: adoption assistance, relocation assistance and business travel accident insurance. Generally speaking, these employees don't need relocation and do not travel on business.
Sprint has a small percentage of employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours of work per week. These employees represent just 0.15% of our workforce currently, and they have access to a smaller set of benefits including our voluntary benefits program, financial planning, 401(k), employee assistance program, rewards and recognition program, and our employee discount portal.
Additional information about our overall commitment to employee health and safety can be found here.
Sprint’s suite of benefits represents a history of innovation in this important area. As times and environments have changed, our benefits have remained progressive and employee-focused.
As early as 1985, we saw the need to provide employees with a safe, convenient place to exercise and become healthy, and opened our first on-site fitness center in Reston , Va. Since that time, we've opened additional fitness centers in other employee locations, and have even opened two health centers (complete with doctors and nurses). For more information on our employee-wellness efforts, click here.
Sprint merged with Nextel in 2005 and took advantage of this opportunity to enhance our benefits with several more innovative options. Sprint became an early adopter of domestic-partner benefits, building on the offering that Nextel already had in place. Sprint also began offering non-smoking employees a discount on their medical premiums. That same year, Sprint began using a pay-based scale when setting benefit premiums, ensuring that even as health care costs were rising across the country, our front-line employees would bear less of the brunt of this increase than higher paid employees.
Sprint’s benefits and related employee-focused programs have helped Sprint receive accolades from many external sources including Conceive Magazine, CivilianJobs.com, G.I. Jobs Magazine, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Business Group on Health.