Derrick Shields Blog

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I tell my clients all the time: it’s so important to facilitate a working atmosphere that seems super cool and fun, not because you need to treat your employees well, but because you must trick them into thinking they’re happy and enjoying their lives as opposed to selling their precious time, ideas and energy to you in exchange for a ‘nice comp package with comprehensive bennies’.

Here’s a handy list of guidelines that will make every day at your office feel like a supercoolfantastic fun party, give them something to brag about/justify their existences with, and keep those worker bees making that honey money.

• Not an Office, but a “Loft” — Your offices should be in a loft. If they’re not, you should rip out ceiling tiles, pull up flooring, expose some brick, and do whatever it is you have to do to facilitate a “loft-like” atmosphere. Creativity only happens in lofts.
• Lots of Screens Everywhere — Nothing inspires creativity by having lots of HD screens all over the place, broadcasting futuristic imagery, cool motion graphics with your logo, neat web data API visualizations, and hip creative TV shows like “Mad Men” and “Jersey Shore”.

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