Work Perks: These 13 Offices Are Way More Fun Than Yours

[demmiblue]

Source: WebUrbanist

YouTube





YouTube’s main headquarters in San Bruno, California mixes work and play with a massive red slide, a putting green, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, nap pods and bicycles and scooters to get around the sizable complex.

Google





Google is renowned for having not only an enviable range of employee perks, but also some incredibly creative work environments at their offices around the world. The Zurich location is particularly noteworthy with its fish tank relaxation room, ski lift work pods, slides, karaoke room and multiple game rooms.

Lego





Working at LEGO is already fun as it is, but combine the fact that you get to play with toys for a living with a really cool work environment, and you’ve got pretty sweet gig. The company’s office in Billund, Denmark includes huge grass wall graphics, a giant LEGO man, tables with built-in bonsai gardens and, of course, slides.

Zynga





Gaming company Zynga, responsible for all of those FarmVille and CityVille alerts you get from your relatives on Facebook, fills a six-floor, 556,000-square-foot building in San Francisco complete with a giant atrium, a wellness center and a food court-like cafe where employees can get three free meals a day.

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[BlueJazz]

1. This is our playroom in General Discussion: Primaries >>

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[demmiblue]

2. I think of it more like this:

[BlueJazz]

4. Really.."Your candidate sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[smirkymonkey]

3. Some of those are awesome!

I love the fish tank relaxation room and the tree houses! And nap pods! What great office environments! If only all offices could be like these.

[demmiblue]

5. I know, right?!

I don't think I would even want to go home!

Perhaps that is their evil plan.

[hunter]

6. Cynical me, it's in return for 80+ hour work weeks...

... high pressure deadlines, local 350 square foot urban apartments or long commutes to boring suburbs, and then the final indignity -- much of the actual work is contracted out to people who will never experience these sorts of corporate playgrounds, many living in very toxic environments.

Capitalism has produced some wonderful things, but at great cost to the natural environment and the human spirit.

I'm some kind of Luddite. I'm not a fan of high energy industrial society. The world would be a much better place if everyone used birth control and just chilled out a bit -- reading a book, puttering around in a garden, watching the birds, going for a long walk, simple daydreaming.

The harsh reality is that most of us don't have work that makes this world a better place.

Our "productivity" is killing us.