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James Rodger & Peter Diamond

Boss gives every employee £8,000 bonus and two first-class plane tickets anywhere

A boss who gave her entire staff £8,000 and two first class plane tickets as a bonus has been dubbed “the world’s best employer.” Sara Blakely gave out $10,000 bonuses to each of her employees.

A video has gone viral showing the moment the businesswoman, who started Spanx, which is valued at $1.2billion announced her remarkable gesture to staff, Birmingham Live reports.

“I’m spinning a globe because to celebrate this moment I have bought each one of you two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world,” she says. She continued: “You know, if you want a trip, you might want to go out to a really nice dinner, you might want to go out to a really nice hotel so, with every one of those two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world, you are each getting $10,000.”

Addressing the room, she said: “This is a very big moment for each and every one of you, and I want to also toast the women that came before me and all of the women in the world who have not had this opportunity.

“So at a moment like this, I think of my mom and my grandmother and their lack of options and all the women that came before them.”

“It was an emotional announcement filled with happy tears acknowledging how far we’ve come,” Ms Blakely wrote in a caption posted to Instagram. “And then the tears really started to flow when I surprised everybody with 2 first class @delta plane tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 cash to spend on the trip.”

“I really want every employee to celebrate this moment in their own way and create a memory that will last them a lifetime! Cheers to 21 years of magic and many more to come,” she added.

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