De 13 grappigste en efficiënte werkplekideëen volgens Envoy’s oprichter Larry Gadea. Deel van een artikel van Cadence Bambenek op Business Insider UK, juni 2016. Waarom alleen voor IT bedrijven en start-ups?
For someone whose hack got him noticed by Google at just 18 years old, it’s no surprise that Larry Gadea is still fascinated by hacks a decade later.
After interning with Google through college and working at Twitter for two years after graduation, Gadea decided to pursue his own startup.
While searching for an idea, Gadea noticed that larger companies like Apple and Google had some in-house office hacks that didn’t seem to be accessible to smaller businesses.
In response, he founded Envoy, making it his business to make one specific office hack, visitor sign-in software, accessible for more than just the larger businesses.
In a similar spirit, Envoy launched a podcast this spring dedicated to exploring and sharing office hacks found in companies like Stitcher, Mozilla, and Slack. Gadea also included instructional “how to” blog posts.
“It kind of came from the same idea of why we even started Envoy,” Gadea told Business Insider. “We noticed that people were building things in their own office and a lot of companies were just rebuilding the same thing … the point of [our podcast] Office Hacks is to kind of highlight some of the fun, quirky things that people are doing in their office to make it more efficient but also make it more enjoyable.”
At Weebly, employees pull a specific book on the book shelf and the door opens to reveal a hidden space …
…which even concluded a bar.
Slack uses these 6.5-by-6.5-by-7 cubes on wheels as mobile meeting spaces. They can be repositioned anywhere in the office, changing up the traditional meeting. 
Two mobile meeting booths can even be connected to form a mobile conference room. The capacity, according to the podcast, is 12 people. 
At Social Media Print Studio, which has a fully stocked kitchen equipped with appliances and a company culture that promotes eating healthy, employees are shamed for eating microwavable meals by being forced to use the microwave in the middle of the office. 
Envoy’s office hack is a customized gong to celebrate new customers — or “a geeky way to make sales exciting in an engineering-driven company.” 
Hootsuite is located in Vancouver, Canada. To celebrate its Canadian heritage, the company has created a mini Canadian ski village inside its office. Cabins, named after famous ski hills, act as quiet work spaces for employees.
Mozilla hooked this vinyl record player up to the internet to stream it digitally to employees through their computers.
Taking a note from the infamous slide found at Google’s campus, this Toronto-based advertising agency installed a giant slide in the middle of its three-story office.
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