perquisite

Emoluments, in constitutional law, are “any perquisite, advantage, or profit arising from the possession of an office.”

Employees that survived the layoffs were sad that their friends were no longer at the company, and that the perquisites — the little extras that made work fun — were reduced, multiple current and former workers said.

Littleness is everywhere evident among those who grab the headlines, demand recognition and deference and seek the perquisites and privileges of power by promising grandiosity in place of greatness.

It was likely that organizing would come for Starbucks, despite the company’s perquisites, such as tuition aid at Arizona State University, one of my alma maters.

Are American employees these days more demanding of personal perquisites, less engaged with others at work and less loyal to the enterprises that pay them than they once were?