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--->'''Ben:''' I mean, I would guess they'll be bankrupt by the end of... this ''sentence''.
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Not to be confused with CrazyWorkplace, where the premise of the work focuses on a wacky work environment where nothing is off the table.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode sees the Pawtucket Brewery undergoing sweeping renovations into an open-floor plan courtesy of a "weirdly charismatic" European businessman; among the promised changes include the addition of nursing pods, pinball machines, a chef who prepares vegan meals, and hammocks and scooters replacing desks. [[StatusQuoIsGod The episode ends with the Brewery exactly as it was at the start]] because the businessman turned out to be a scammer.
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* Sharper Image's offices in ''Series/{{W1A}}'' has plenty of amenities for the staff. They even have an in-house DJ for spontaneous raves.
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-->"[[ExaggeratedTrope Here at Google, they take care of you. Every day at noontime, they send by your high school crush to tell you how awesome you are. ... Every day at 2:30 it rains Belgian waffles and bichon frise puppies.]]"
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* The Website/{{Collegehumor}} workplace, as depicted in ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'' and its sister series. Antics happen every episode, heists and [[Film/ThePurge purges]] can be carried out whenever the idea strikes, physics and people operate on RuleOfFunny, and even the MundaneFantastic may pop in during working hours. This is occasionally deconstructed, such as in ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'' where the boss berates the two for doing nothing but arguing at their desks and never submitting any work for years.
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* Sally works an office like this for a while in ''ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward'', with the source of humour being that she's used to more a ''traditional'' office environment.
* In 2023, Jeremy from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' got a job as a "search engine optimisation tech" for a startup that makes energy bars, a job that his parents are bewildered seems to mostly consist of mucking about on his phone.
-->'''Jeremy''': I rollerbladed over to a marketing meeting, then we all played volleyball until the Ultimate Frisbee tournament started. Another day in the life of Joe Lunchbucket.
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* Sally works an office like this for a while in ''ComicStrip/SallyForthHoward'', with the source of humour being that she's used to more a ''traditional'' office environment.
* In 2023, Jeremy from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' got a job as a "search engine optimisation tech" for a startup that makes energy bars, a job that his parents are bewildered seems to mostly consist of mucking about on his phone.
-->'''Jeremy''': I rollerbladed over to a marketing meeting, then we all played volleyball until the Ultimate Frisbee tournament started. Another day in the life of Joe Lunchbucket.
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* WebAnimation/PhaseConnect meetings are held in a company VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} server, using Discord for communication.
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Expect to see plenty of dogs, a complementary snack bar and coffee shop, nap pods, and maybe even a full bar and DJ on Fridays. The cafeteria has gourmet food prepared by a chef and it's free. Massage therapists visit regularly. OfficeSports are not on the down low but probably encouraged. There may be a climbing wall and yoga classes. Basically, it's the office version of the CoolestClubEver, though as the examples below attest, [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated this doesn't always make it a nice place to work]]. The unspoken bargain might be "we made the workplace cool, so now you have to work late every day and come in on weekends."
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Expect to see plenty of dogs, a complementary snack bar and coffee shop, nap pods, and maybe even a full bar and DJ on Fridays. The cafeteria has gourmet food prepared by a chef and it's free. Massage therapists visit regularly. OfficeSports are not on the down low but probably encouraged. There may be a climbing wall and yoga classes. Basically, it's the office version of the CoolestClubEver, though as the examples below attest, [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated this doesn't always make it a nice place to work]]. The unspoken bargain might be "we made the workplace cool, so now you have to work late every day and come in on weekends.""[[note]]Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School characterizes this tech firm strategy as "We’re going to make it so wonderful to be here that you never need to leave.”[[/note]]
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Rather than beige cubicles and drab walls, these offices are brightly colored, brightly lit, fashionably decorated and bursting with amenities, often with the goal of improving esprit de corps, teamwork, and quality of life. As well, by saving
employees time with on-site free meals and fitness centers, firms hope to increase productivity. Instead of white shirts and ties, the dress code is casual, and employees can be seen lounging around in flip-flops and shorts. The office is filled wall-to-wall with air hockey tables, skateboard ramps, slides between floors and employees goofing off and enjoying themselves.
Expect to see plenty of dogs, a complementary snack bar and coffee shop, nap pods, and maybe even a full bar and DJ on Fridays. The cafeteria has gourmet food prepared by a chef and it's free. Massage therapists visit regularly. OfficeSports are not on the downlow, but probably encouraged. There may be a climbing wall and yoga classes. Basically, it's the office version of the CoolestClubEver, though as the examples below attest, [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated this doesn't always make it a nice place to work]]. The unspoken bargain might be "we made the workplace cool, so now you have to work late every day and come in on weekends."
employees time with on-site free meals and fitness centers, firms hope to increase productivity. Instead of white shirts and ties, the dress code is casual, and employees can be seen lounging around in flip-flops and shorts. The office is filled wall-to-wall with air hockey tables, skateboard ramps, slides between floors and employees goofing off and enjoying themselves.
Expect to see plenty of dogs, a complementary snack bar and coffee shop, nap pods, and maybe even a full bar and DJ on Fridays. The cafeteria has gourmet food prepared by a chef and it's free. Massage therapists visit regularly. OfficeSports are not on the downlow, but probably encouraged. There may be a climbing wall and yoga classes. Basically, it's the office version of the CoolestClubEver, though as the examples below attest, [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated this doesn't always make it a nice place to work]]. The unspoken bargain might be "we made the workplace cool, so now you have to work late every day and come in on weekends."
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Rather than beige cubicles and drab walls, these offices are brightly colored, brightly lit, fashionably decorated decorated, and bursting with amenities, often with the goal of improving esprit de corps, teamwork, and quality of life. As well, by saving
employees time with on-site free meals and fitness centers, firms hope to increase productivity. Instead of white shirts and ties, the dress code is casual, and employees can be seen lounging around in flip-flops and shorts. The office is filled wall-to-wall with air hockey tables, skateboard ramps, slides betweenfloors floors, and employees goofing off and enjoying themselves.
Expect to see plenty of dogs, a complementary snack bar and coffee shop, nap pods, and maybe even a full bar and DJ on Fridays. The cafeteria has gourmet food prepared by a chef and it's free. Massage therapists visit regularly. OfficeSports are not on thedownlow, down low but probably encouraged. There may be a climbing wall and yoga classes. Basically, it's the office version of the CoolestClubEver, though as the examples below attest, [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated this doesn't always make it a nice place to work]]. The unspoken bargain might be "we made the workplace cool, so now you have to work late every day and come in on weekends."
employees time with on-site free meals and fitness centers, firms hope to increase productivity. Instead of white shirts and ties, the dress code is casual, and employees can be seen lounging around in flip-flops and shorts. The office is filled wall-to-wall with air hockey tables, skateboard ramps, slides between
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This is especially common with tech and media startups that are flush with venture capital (like the ShallowNewsSiteSatire), as these industries are often seen as the land of the TechBro, the BunnyEarsLawyer and younger employees looking for a fun workplace. Due to the competition in the tech industry for talent, these additional amenities can be enticing for job applicants who have been offered similar salaries by other companies. However, even business giants can get it on this; Website/{{Google}} is an example of a major player with fun offices.
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This is especially common with tech and media startups that are flush with venture capital (like the ShallowNewsSiteSatire), as these industries are often seen as the land of the TechBro, the BunnyEarsLawyer BunnyEarsLawyer, and younger employees looking for a fun workplace. Due to the competition in the tech industry for talent, these additional amenities can be enticing for job applicants who have been offered similar salaries by other companies. However, even business giants can get it on this; Website/{{Google}} is an example of a major player with fun offices.
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** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Entertainment 720, a business which doesn't seem to ever actually do anything and exists primarily so Tom and Jean-Ralphio can fill an office with cool fun stuff and have a good time. Deconstructed as well, as it becoming clear that Tom and Jean-Ralphio have no idea how to run a business and care more about having the appearance of this. Due to their pointless excess the company is haemorrhaging money at a rate of millions. Between them focusing more on having a fun business over a functioning one, and their refusal to listen to [[OnlySaneMan Ben Wyatt's]] warnings, the two quickly go bankrupt and are forced to closed down.
** Gryzzl, an actually successful tech company, has fewer useless amenities than Entertainment 720, but still cultivates this vibe. Its employees dress in hoodies and graphic tees, there are brightly colored murals of vaguely inspirational quotes, and the staff hangs around playing the board game Cones of Dunshire.
** Gryzzl, an actually successful tech company, has fewer useless amenities than Entertainment 720, but still cultivates this vibe. Its employees dress in hoodies and graphic tees, there are brightly colored murals of vaguely inspirational quotes, and the staff hangs around playing the board game Cones of Dunshire.
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** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} with Entertainment 720, a business which that doesn't seem to ever actually do anything and exists primarily so Tom and Jean-Ralphio can fill an office with cool fun stuff and have a good time. Deconstructed as well, as it becoming becomes clear that Tom and Jean-Ralphio have no idea how to run a business and care more about having the appearance of this. Due to their pointless excess excess, the company is haemorrhaging money at a rate of millions. Between them focusing more on having a fun business over a functioning one, and their refusal to listen to [[OnlySaneMan Ben Wyatt's]] warnings, the two quickly go bankrupt and are forced to closed close down.
** Gryzzl, an actually successful tech company, has fewer useless amenities than Entertainment720, 720 but still cultivates this vibe. Its employees dress in hoodies and graphic tees, there are brightly colored murals of vaguely inspirational quotes, and the staff hangs around playing the board game Cones of Dunshire.
** Gryzzl, an actually successful tech company, has fewer useless amenities than Entertainment
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* A downplayed example can be seen in ''Series/WisdomOfTheCrowd''. When wealthy tech innovator Jeffrey Tanner creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub called "Sophe" to solve his daughter's murder, he acquires a disused warehouse in Oakland to serve as the base of operations. While the working portion of the warehouse is overflowing with stripped-down computer equipment and server stacks needed to host Sophe's web-based interface, the employee lounges and conference rooms are much more trendy. They've been retrofitted with a juice bar, espresso machine, retro arcade cabinets, pop-art inspired murals, refurbished-chic bar stools, lighting fixtures straight from Restoration Hardware and egregiously hip hanging-egg-chairs.
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* A downplayed example can be seen in ''Series/WisdomOfTheCrowd''. When wealthy tech innovator Jeffrey Tanner creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub called "Sophe" to solve his daughter's murder, he acquires a disused warehouse in Oakland to serve as the base of operations. While the working portion of the warehouse is overflowing with stripped-down computer equipment and server stacks needed to host Sophe's web-based interface, the employee lounges and conference rooms are much more trendy. They've been retrofitted with a juice bar, espresso machine, retro arcade cabinets, pop-art inspired murals, refurbished-chic bar stools, lighting fixtures straight from Restoration Hardware Hardware, and egregiously hip hanging-egg-chairs.
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* The Nudle Office in ''Videogame/WatchDogs2'' resembles an office-sized children play-place, including a functional slide.
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* Deconstructed with Mark Beaks' workplace in ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}''. On the surface it appears to be this, with trampolines, slides, and free snow cones for employees, but all of this is to distract employees from how much of a MeanBoss and ControlFreak Beaks ''really'' is, and he prefers to breed a competitive working environment rather than a cooperative one.
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* Deconstructed with Mark Beaks' workplace in ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}''. On the surface surface, it appears to be this, with trampolines, slides, and free snow cones for employees, but all of this is to distract employees from how much of a MeanBoss and ControlFreak Beaks ''really'' is, and he prefers to breed a competitive working environment rather than a cooperative one.
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** The show also already spoofed the early 2000's iteration of this in the season 13 episode "I Am Furious (Yellow)" where the cool office includes a toilet paper dispenser loaded with a roll of stocks for the company.
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* Creator/IonStorm, the company John Romero founded after leaving Creator/IdSoftware, moved into the most extravagant offices that their founder's money could buy and spent even more money on decorating them to his liking, complete with [[https://photos.smugmug.com/Video-Games/The-Archives/i-rrj8PnK/2/b5bee46e/S/ion_lobby-S.jpg a massive company logo laid on the lobby's terrazo floor.]] Apparently one of the things he'd hated about his time at Id was that before they hit the bigtime with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' they were working out of an office whose main redeeming quality was that the rent was within their budget and he ''really'' wanted some nicer digs this time around. Unfortunately, the suite he rented turned out to be AwesomeButImpractical, with a glass roof that let in lots of natural light... to the point where it became too much of a good thing because the glare made all the screens illegible at certain times of day. The office was also loaded with toys and games that ended up slowing down progress because staffers became preoccupied with having fun. The in-office movie theater was another distraction and an expensive one at that. Because no one knew how to actually operate the projector, its specialized bulb kept blowing out forcing the office to pay for pricey repairs and replacements bulbs. These issues ended up being just a portion of a long series of bad decisions that led to the immensely TroubledProduction of ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''.
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* Creator/IonStorm, the company John Romero founded after leaving Creator/IdSoftware, moved into the most extravagant offices that their founder's money could buy and spent even more money on decorating them to his liking, complete with [[https://photos.smugmug.com/Video-Games/The-Archives/i-rrj8PnK/2/b5bee46e/S/ion_lobby-S.jpg a massive company logo laid on the lobby's terrazo terrazzo floor.]] Apparently one of the things he'd hated about his time at Id was that before they hit the bigtime big time with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' they were working out of an office whose main redeeming quality was that the rent was within their budget and he ''really'' wanted some nicer digs this time around. Unfortunately, the suite he rented turned out to be AwesomeButImpractical, with a glass roof that let in lots of natural light... to the point where it became too much of a good thing because the glare made all the screens illegible at certain times of day. The office was also loaded with toys and games that ended up slowing down progress because staffers became preoccupied with having fun. The in-office movie theater was another distraction and an expensive one at that. Because no one knew how to actually operate the projector, its specialized bulb kept blowing out forcing the office to pay for pricey repairs and replacements replacement bulbs. These issues ended up being just a portion of a long series of bad decisions that led to the immensely TroubledProduction of ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''.
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* In 2023, Montreal software company Lightspeed Commerce Inc. wanted to lure workers back after the COVID-19 pandemic, so they doubled the size of their office space and added a restaurant with "free meals, a smoothie bar and a barista to craft custom drinks." A "gym and a courtyard...with foliage and a fountain are planned. [[note]]https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/canadian-companies-turning-to-amenities-to-lure-staff-back-to-offices-5932956[[/note]]
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* In 2023, Montreal software company Lightspeed Commerce Inc. wanted to lure workers back after the COVID-19 pandemic, so they doubled the size of their office space and added a restaurant with "free meals, a smoothie bar bar, and a barista to craft custom drinks." A "gym and a courtyard...with foliage and a fountain are planned. [[note]]https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/canadian-companies-turning-to-amenities-to-lure-staff-back-to-offices-5932956[[/note]]
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* Creator/IonStorm, the company John Romero founded after leaving Creator/IdSoftware, moved into the most extravagant offices that their founder's money could buy and spent even more money on decorating them to his liking, complete with [[https://photos.smugmug.com/Video-Games/The-Archives/i-rrj8PnK/2/b5bee46e/S/ion_lobby-S.jpg a massive company logo laid on the lobby's terrazo floor.]] Apparently one of the things he'd hated about his time at Id was that before they hit the bigtime with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' they were working out of an office whose main redeeming quality was that the rent was within their budget and he ''really'' wanted some nicer digs this time around. Unfortunately, the suite he rented turned out to be AwesomeButImpractical, with a glass roof that let in lots of natural light... to the point where it became too much of a good thing because the glare made all the screens illegible at certain times of day. The office was also loaded with toys and games that ended up slowing down progress because staffers became preoccupied with having fun. The in-office movie theater was another distraction and an expensive one at that. Because no one knew how to actually operate the projector, its specialized bulb kept blowing out forcing the office to pay for pricey repairs and replacements bubls. These issues ended up being just a portion of a long series of bad decisions that led to the immensely TroubledProduction of ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''.
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* Creator/IonStorm, the company John Romero founded after leaving Creator/IdSoftware, moved into the most extravagant offices that their founder's money could buy and spent even more money on decorating them to his liking, complete with [[https://photos.smugmug.com/Video-Games/The-Archives/i-rrj8PnK/2/b5bee46e/S/ion_lobby-S.jpg a massive company logo laid on the lobby's terrazo floor.]] Apparently one of the things he'd hated about his time at Id was that before they hit the bigtime with ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' they were working out of an office whose main redeeming quality was that the rent was within their budget and he ''really'' wanted some nicer digs this time around. Unfortunately, the suite he rented turned out to be AwesomeButImpractical, with a glass roof that let in lots of natural light... to the point where it became too much of a good thing because the glare made all the screens illegible at certain times of day. The office was also loaded with toys and games that ended up slowing down progress because staffers became preoccupied with having fun. The in-office movie theater was another distraction and an expensive one at that. Because no one knew how to actually operate the projector, its specialized bulb kept blowing out forcing the office to pay for pricey repairs and replacements bubls.bulbs. These issues ended up being just a portion of a long series of bad decisions that led to the immensely TroubledProduction of ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''.
