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Awesome article. The two huge takeaways for me were: 1) Company-provided lunches aren't simply the value of the food -- it's the value of the bonding that can
by Nate75Sanders 15y ago
Awesome article.
The two huge takeaways for me were:
1) Company-provided lunches aren't simply the value of the food -- it's the value of the bonding that can be created among co-workers. If people become friends then work isn't "just a job" anymore.
2) The workcation -- I'm rarely surprised by almost anything I read from startups anymore, and I've grown skeptical of founders as being psychologically manipulative of early hires in many ways, but this is truly a great and non-manipulative idea: Let's all go somewhere else and work some of the time and explore/play some of the time.
It's so good because so many people in the US are physically disparate from their families/people they need to visit. Even a fairly solid (by American standards) vacation of 3 weeks turns into a mandatory visiting of divorced parents (separate physical locations). This eats up vacation days like mad.
EDIT: drunken rambling
- jwallaceparker 15y agoWow. Great comment. Agree completely.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoPlease don't post "me too" comments.
- ido 15y ago2) The workcation Do people bring their spouses/children along on these?
- michaeldhopkins 15y agoMy favorite example of the "workcation" is Andyet's month-long stay in a castle, partly because it's not pretending to be much more than an awesome idea: http://andyet.net/blog/2011/mar/3/devcastle/ http://andyet.net/blog/2011/mar/3/devcastle/ http://andyet.net/blog/2011/jul/18/devcastle-the-movie/ http://andyet.net/blog/2011/jul/18/devcastle-the-movie/