Facebook’s 12 most fantastic employee perks
Paulo Vescia/Business Journal
#1: Free bikes everywhere:
Communal beach cruisers are parked everywhere, making it easy to get across the 57-acre, 11-building campus. A paved road with traffic lines keeps cyclists from running into one another or the hundreds of pedestrians crossing campus. Facebook ripped up Sun Microsystems' winding pathways, saying a central road would encourage employees to mingle and share ideas.
Click above to see more of Facebook's best perks.
Communal beach cruisers are parked everywhere, making it easy to get across the 57-acre, 11-building campus. A paved road with traffic lines keeps cyclists from running into one another or the hundreds of pedestrians crossing campus. Facebook ripped up Sun Microsystems' winding pathways, saying a central road would encourage employees to mingle and share ideas.
Click above to see more of Facebook's best perks.
- By Luke Stangel
Later this week, we’ll post a similar tour of Google, Silicon Valley’s second-happiest company. Our articles this week are part of an ongoing series at the Business Journal on the role employee benefits and perks play in establishing good corporate culture. Last week, we examined the 7 happiest companies in Silicon Valley (and the 7 most miserable).
I’ve toured Facebook’s headquarters at different times in the company’s history. I went to high school with one of Facebook’s first engineers, James Pereira, and had the opportunity to see Facebook’s first office at 471 Emerson St., when it was just a single room above a Chinese restaurant. Later, I toured the company’s bigger offices on University Avenue.
The Facebook I saw last week felt like a natural evolution of those earlier offices. There’s still graffiti art on the walls, snacks and drinks are everywhere, cubicles don’t exist and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s office looks just like everyone else’s.
We spent nearly an hour on the 57-acre campus, which was previously home to Sun Microsystems. Around every corner was something newly delightful. The company spared no expense in building a corporate compound designed for maximum employee happiness and efficiency.
Late last month, Facebook got approval to begin building a new, 22-acre Frank Gehry-designed campus on nearby Constitution Drive. An underground tunnel will connect the two campuses, which, when complete, will be able to hold more than 6,000 employees.
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