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Nap room. Seriously. I'm often dragging a bit by 3-4PM, between general tiredness and food coma from lunch. I'd love to be able to crash out for an hour or two, and come back to what I'm doing refreshed.
If your ops department is good enough that people list it as their "in case of emergency" contact number, in preference to family members, you're doing it right. (obviously ops will contact your spouse/etc., but I'd rather have "Ryan has been kidnapped" or "hurt in a car accident in Malaysia" responded to by someone who can actually bring serious resources to bear, vs. someone who will get emotional.)
Nap room. Seriously. I'm often dragging a bit by 3-4PM, between general tiredness and food coma from lunch. I'd love to be able to crash out for an hour or two, and come back to what I'm doing refreshed.
When you bike or take public transportation to work, you can't sneak a nap on your lunch break in your car. A nap room would be oh so helpful, and would dramatically aid productivity for sleepy employees benefiting from a power nap.
As a professional, I appreciate the ability to dress down or in casual wear like jeans a t-shirt. this is forbidden in legal and accounting fields so its basically an unfulfilled dream...unless you work for yourself =D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_Emanuel_Urquhart_%26_Sull...
More firms should follow suit. (Pun not intended.)
- Free Drinks / Snacks / Lunches - 20% Time - Music/Stereo System in the office - Work from Home Days (where everyone does)
I'm not convinced by the music thing. We have music at our office but in practice it rapidly trends towards whatever offends the least people which is normally some kind of "easy listening" dreck. This doesn't seem to work for most people, given that a fair number of us still listen to our own music on ipods or whatever. I suppose it would be a nice little benefit if the music played was interesting and cool, but I'm…
So it's something to be wary of and not a benefit in my book.
Between my experiences at several jobs: -In office music -In office shower. Somewhere to store extra clothes and items -In office kitchen (and a good one at that) -Bike rack -Basic bike tools on-hand at office -Easily accessible set of basic hand and small power tools in office. Stuff happens. You need them. -Motorcycle parking -Chair budget. Get what you want/need to work best -I liked Pixar's office/cube budget, al…
A friend of mine works for Maruti(Indian subsidiary of Suzuki Motors). They let you 'buy' a Maruti car and pay the loan installments for you over 4 years. You become eligible for a new car every 3 years or so. If you ever leave, you keep the car, but take over the payments. After 4 years, the car is yours.
I spent 2 months last year working in China consulting for "the Facebook of China" (not actually Facebook). One thing that I loved about the office - every day at 6pm, caterers would come round with lunch boxes for everyone. Plus soup, plus drink, plus fruit. And every day it was different! (and delicious) Sure it's a far cry from Google's 5-star catering with 10 page menu or whatever, but I remember feeling super ha…
amazing results.