For some New Yorkers, being stuck inside the office, even on a less than splendid day, can be — dare we say it — fun.
Companies are wooing employees with workplace perks that range from the practical, like health care plans or paid vacations, to the fanciful: In-house barista, anyone?
To distract you from your cubicle, we rounded up a few of the coolest perks at offices around New York.
Casper, a start-up that sells mattresses, pays its employees to exercise and to track their sleep schedules. And employees can get some of that shut-eye on the clock with three nap pods in their Gramercy Park-area office.
The pods double as cozy cubicles, said Neil Parikh, a Casper co-founder and chief operating officer. “It’s comfortable to just get into bed and have a meeting.”
At Grubhub, an online food-delivery service, a “working lunch” takes on a whole new meaning. Employees can get credits for two free meals each week to spend at the more than 11,000 restaurants on Grubhub-related platforms in the New York area.
BuzzFeed has quite the snack spread at its Gramercy office, with a frozen-yogurt machine (the flavor changes monthly), weekly bagels and a breakfast speaker series (the lineup has included Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and the talk show host Stephen Colbert), said Shira Mahler, a company spokeswoman.
Blending work time and play time. Credit Bark
At the Chinatown headquarters of Bark, the company behind the subscription dog-treat service BarkBox, puppies (and libations) are all around. Along with beer and rosé on tap, the dog-friendly office has an indoor play area where employees can work alongside their canine friends and rescue pups brought in for adoption.
“It’s basically a dog or rosé person’s paradise,” said Carly Strife, Bark’s co-founder and chief operating officer.
WeWork, which rents out office space to start-ups and small companies, sponsors an annual out-of-town summer camp, which includes a friendly game of tug of war, meditation and cooking around the campfire, said Jennifer Skyler, WeWork’s head of public affairs. At night, they’re treated to private performances from artists like The Weeknd or Lin-Manuel Miranda of “Hamilton” fame.
From: The New York Times
