Today many office workers admire Google headquarters and offices as the design company choose transferred its offices to employee-friendly workspace. However, back to eighties developing company Apple was offering to its employees to take a break for a game of ping pong or to release the stress playing videogames. Supporters of more restful break from work could relax while listening to the music records of world’s best musicians and bands.
Perhaps the reason for such an innovative approach to the workspace design was the explosive nature of the company's founder Steve Jobs. The following case was recorded in one of the hotels in New York, where Steve Jobs stayed overnight. Apple CEO considered that the location of piano in the hotel room was wrong and asked hotel personnel to change it. Afterwards he also asked to change flowers to callas.
Even being in the hospital, Steve Jobs refused oxygen mask, saying that its design was disgusting. Apple CEO asked the doctors to bring him 5 different masks among which he will be able to find the one that will satisfy him. Jobs was also dissatisfied with the colour of machinery and walls in the factory, so it was changed several times until the head of the company was not satisfied.
However, despite the complicated character and pedantry, Apple office already in 1985 was very different from other company workspaces. Meeting rooms were named in honor of the artists Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso. Moreover, fresh fruit juice for company employees cost for Apple around $100 thousand per year.
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