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Subscribe to RSSCNBC's Carl Quintanilla and Julia Boorstin discuss the many "perks" Facebook offers its employees, including three meals a day, free dry cleaning, and multiple bars with beer on tap.
If you just bought shares in Facebook or are considering doing so, you probably want to know what the company is doing to keep its employees happy.
At its new headquarters in Silicon Valley, CNBC reports that the social media giant goes beyond just free food and on-site drycleaning (that's so Google).
Facebook employees also can use a treadmill while taking conference calls, walk or bike the faux streets of the complex, get a beer on tap and write something on a literal Facebook wall.
Employees also apparently named the conference rooms, which gives you an insight into the geekdom at work here. Got a meeting? Put on your hoodie and head down to Jar Jar Drinks or Mai Tai Fighter.
Do the employee perks at your office compare to the ones at Facebook HQ? Tell us in the comments section below.
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It's officially Facebook day here in the USA.
One perk at work we do share with Facebook is being able to go to the bathroom whenever we want.
While the amenities are phenomenal and I am sure you will not find that anywhere else; it almost seems as if they are trying to prevent their employees from leaving and going home to their own families or even living a life outside of Facebook.
Of course. You have to live there to write all that code.
Wow. Those sound like the lamest perks I've ever heard. Big deal. Treadmill on conf call? Star Wars conference rooms? A bar? I'll take the masseuse from Google, please, as well as their other incredible perks. And, I've been able to drink at my last two places (including current gig). And, no, I don't work at a restaurant.
I work in a hell-hole... must be nice to play at FB... enjoy it while you can.
What kind of beer?
Perks in an American corporation now? There's so many applicants for the very few jobs left in this country you'd be lucky to be offered a fair rate of pay for your skills let alone any "perks"! Most corporations are going for temp help to avoid paying for any basic benefits (health insurance, etc.), and even cutting the hours of existing employees to avoid paying for them. Walgreens Corporate Help Center has been using temps for years telling them "the good ones will be hired "when the hiring freeze is over". That freeze has been on for five years that I know of. Yet the CEO took an $8 mil raise last year! Walgreens doesn't have one store in India, and outsources jobs to it! And has been hiring people here on a work visa from Pakistan to avoid paying the prevailing wage to citizens with the same qualifications for quite awhile. No wonder it changed it's motto from "The Pharmacy America Trusts", to "There's A Way".
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