BeyondWork Offers Sweetheart Specials for Valentine's Day; Worksite Virtual Marketplace Features Romantic and Creative Gifts

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2000

Business Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000

BeyondWork Inc., (www.beyondwork.com) the leading provider of Internet-delivered work/life benefits, announced a special Valentine's Day corporate benefit for busy employees. BeyondWork, in partnership with more than a dozen work/life suppliers, is providing a workplace Valentines Day website showcasing value priced romantic gifts and services for nearly a million employee-customers nationwide. The company also announced that it has signed more than 1400 member companies, an increase of 40% in membership to its benefits program over the past sixty days.

BeyondWork's worksite virtual marketplace features Valentine's specials that include a Gourmet Dream meal for two prepared by a personal chef in your home, 20 tulips delivered directly from Holland, the &uot;I Left My Heart in San Francisco&uot; GourmetMarket.com chocolate gift box, at home massages by Body Techniques and many other holiday-themed gifts all available through the convenience of a desktop.

&uot;Every year Valentine's Day sneaks up on working America and they're left with too little time to appreciate the ones they care for most,&uot; said Israel Niv, President and CEO of BeyondWork. &uot;Through our free work/life benefits program, available exclusively to corporate members, employers are recognizing that good relationships with family and loved ones are important to a healthy, productive workplace and are proving this to their employees by providing access to BeyondWork's worksite virtual marketplace. Working with human resource professionals at these companies, our goal is to bring together an enhancement of work and life-beyond-work.&uot;

BeyondWork's worksite virtual marketplace is a work/life benefits program that provides in-demand, value-priced products and services to employees and their families. Employees of member companies have access to a wide variety of everyday work/life products and services, including lift tickets, cruises, books, Palm Pilots, on-line gift shopping, errand services and in-office massage. BeyondWork carefully chooses supplier partners who provide high-quality items that can assist employees in quickly and efficiently enhancing the routine of everyday life, right from their desktop at the workplace.

&uot;We chose to partner with BeyondWork because of their leadership position and shared vision of appreciation for the employee's well being,&uot; remarked Austin Lund, President of Body Techniques, a San Francisco-based corporate massage therapy provider. &uot;Valentine's Day is the one day of the year dedicated to showing appreciation for the special people in our lives. It's a day when the quality of relationships - whether between two people or work and life - and well being are top of mind. We are happy to participate in BeyondWork's nationwide worksite Valentine's Day program.&uot;

About BeyondWork

BeyondWork Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, is the leading provider of outsourced Internet-delivered work/life benefits. The &uot;BeyondWork Work/Life Connection&uot; (www.beyondwork.com) is a free worksite marketplace for member companies and employees to access value-priced, in-demand products and services. BeyondWork's program enables a company of any size to provide a more competitive benefit package. Among the more than 1400 member companies are innovative business leaders such as CNET, Oracle, SGI, 3Com, Hotel Nikko, Lucent, Banc of America Securities, Informix and Exodus Communications. For more information, contact BeyondWork at (408) 982-8282 or go to the BeyondWork Web site.

BeyondWork.com, the BeyondWork logo, The Work/Life Connection and Worksite Virtual Marketplace are trademarks of BeyondWork Incorporated. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.