Pay
The Performance Pay Program is an annual incentive program that rewards employees for achieving company, business unit, and individual goals. Collective bargaining employees only participate to the extent their bargaining units have approved participation.
Health and Wellness
Southern Company offers a competitive compensation and benefits program. "Your Total Rewards" includes medical, wellness, vacation, tuition-reimbursement, career training, and retirement benefits.
Company-paid health and lab profiles through "SouthernLifeStyle" have led to numerous preventive diagnoses, some potentially life-saving. Exercise programs and day care facilities are among the many free or low-cost programs provided to employees by Southern Company. Details »
We also maintain random drug testing to keep the workplace free of illegal drugs and alcohol.
Employees at Southern Company may be called upon to serve during and after catastrophic storms. Family Services provides assistance to employees who incur significant damage to personal property as a result of a widespread disaster impacting business continuity. Employees and their families are are not left alone to face lives turned upside-down by catastrophe.
Learning & Advancement
We give our employees opportunities to learn, grow, and advance in their careers. Examples include LearningSOurce, our instructional Web site, and JobSource, our internal online resource for job postings.
New Child Care Facilities
In addition to expanding wellness benefits, Southern Company subsidiary Georgia Power recently opened two new child care centers. The Bright Generations centers build the kind of workplace it takes to attract and retain the best employees. The centers offer employee families in need of child care away from the home an accredited program with a sound instructional component and nurturing environment.
The child care facilities add to wellness benefits that include a new fitness center as well as free health monitoring and disease prevention services on-site.
Commuting
Georgia Power, Southern Company's largest subsidiary, operates the biggest commuter program of any public utility in the nation and the largest of any corporation in Georgia. SmartRide offers carpool, vanpool, transit, telework, flex time, alternative work locations, shuttle, and other commuting choices to employees. Many are subsidized to encourage broader participation.
Over 46 percent of eligible employees take advantage of the SmartRide program, avoiding 1.3 million driving miles every month. This equates to an annual reduction of 60 tons in transportation-sourced carbon dioxide emissions in metro Atlanta. CommuteSmart vans also run in Birmingham for Alabama Power riders.
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