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===Benefits=== [[File:Sas campus passage.jpg|left|thumb|Entrance to SAS Campus in Cary, NC.]] [[File:SASToronto2.JPG|thumb|SAS office in Toronto]] The SAS headquarters in Cary is situated on a 900-acre campus with various on-site services and amenities for employees. Buildings comprise about a third of the campus, while the remaining acreage is mostly green spaces and bodies of water which are accessible by trails.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cain |first=Áine |title=This $3.2 billion tech company you've never heard of has insane perks including massage therapists, a pool, and woodside yoga |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/sas-office-tour-2017-10 |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> SAS offers on-site [[day care]] services to its employees for 850 children for about a third of the normal cost. Medical services are provided to employees and their families for free and 80% of the cost is covered for specialists.<ref name="fortynine"/> Employees are encouraged to work 35-hour weeks<ref name="fortynine"/> and have free access to a recreation and fitness center<ref name="fastc"/> as well as life counseling services.<ref name="fortynine"/> It also hosts a summer camp for children<ref name="seventyeight"/> and operates on-site cafeterias and cafes.<ref name="seventyeight"/> 22.5 tons of M&Ms are provided each year, in jars that are re-filled every Wednesday.<ref name=fastc/> Similar amenities are provided at its other offices besides its headquarters.<ref name="dynamic">{{citation|publisher=Organizational Dynamics|volume=41|issue=1|date=January–March 2012|pages=32–43|title=Creating cultures that lead to success: Lincoln Electric, Southwest Airlines, and SAS Institute}}</ref><ref name="hbrjp">{{citation|title=SAS Institute: A Different Approach to Incentives and People Management Practices in the Software Industry|date=January 1998|url=http://hbr.org/product/sas-institute-a-different-approach-to-incentives-a/an/HR6-PDF-ENG|access-date=September 22, 2014|publisher=Graduate School of Business, Stanford University|first=Jeffrey|last=Pfeffer}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text=95 percent of a company's assets drive out the front gate every night, the CEO must see to it that they return the following day.|author=James Goodnight|source=quoted in ''Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future''<ref name="KochanSchmalensee2003">{{cite book|author1=Thomas A. Kochan|author2=Richard Schmalensee|title=Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FP41RrwEiGoC&pg=PA117|year=2003|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-11282-6|pages=117}}</ref>}} SAS spokespeople say its employee benefits are provided for business, not altruistic, reasons.<ref name=fastc/><ref name="fortynine"/> The company evaluates new benefits using three criteria: whether it would benefit the company culture, whether it would serve a significant number of employees and whether it would save more money than is spent on it.<ref name=fastc/> According to academics, the company's practices improve the loyalty, focus and creativity of its staff.<ref name="seventyeight"/> Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer from the Stanford Graduate School of Business estimated that the company saves $60–$80 million annually in expenses related to employee turnover.<ref name="BenkoWeisberg2013">{{cite book|author1=Cathleen Benko|author2=Anne Weisberg|title=Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gln1dOjpLY4C&pg=PA111|date=December 30, 2013|publisher=Harvard Business Press|isbn=978-1-4221-3868-7|pages=111}}</ref> SAS has an annual employee turnover of three<ref name="fortynine"/> to five<ref name=fastc/> percent, while the software industry's average is 20<ref name="fortynine"/> to 25 percent.<ref name="fifty"/> According to ''USA Today'', the workplace culture has created "intensely loyal" staff who care about the company's well-being.<ref name="fifty"/> Even though there are unlimited sick days, the average employee takes only two. The 40,000 free medical visits provided to employees annually are estimated to cost the company US$4.5 million, but save it US$5 million due to the employee productivity lost when staff spend their work-hours in waiting rooms at other hospitals.<ref name="seventyeight"/>
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