Kate Hackett
From all-you-can-eat buffets to yoga to literal playgrounds on-site, companies (most famously, Google) have been rushing to make workplaces more fun and interesting in recent years.
But is that all just a big ploy to get people to spend more time at work for the same money?
That very question is why people are coming for a TikToker who recently shared a video tour of her office.
TikToker Vivvie, @vivviey, recently posted a video that took viewers around her office and showed off all the perks she and her co-workers receive working at a tech company.
Vivvie shows us a free breakfast area, a hygiene station, hair tools, tons of snacks, candy, and a sandwich bar.
Some people thought the workplace was great, stocked to the brim with everything a worker could ask for, but others wondered if the company might have some more sinister motives.
“I just don’t understand why other companies don’t adopt these,” one user noted in the comments. “It’s a win-win for employer and employee.”
“Stuff like this makes employees want to work hard and show up,” another person wrote. “But instead so many comp want to make workplaces hell.”
“Taking notes for when I one day open my own business,” said a third. “This is such a simple but necessary thing for companies to do for their employees.”
And it’s true: companies should make sure that their employees are happy. In 2015, a study reported by USA Today stated, “56%, of full-time employees, are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ happy with their current job, that number jumps to 67% among those who have access to free food.”
But some TikTokers wondered if the plan wasn’t to make happy employees… but to keep them locked in the office.
“This just encourages workers to arrive earlier and stay late hours, assimilating being at work with being at home,” said one person who promptly followed it up with a hyperbolic cry: “Aka…a capitalist ploy.”
“It’s a trick to keep you at work 24/7,” a second wrote. Does it work? Well, Vivvie wrote in with, “lol well it works.”
“We love an employer that makes sure you never have to leave their office and have any personal time,” someone else sarcastically droned
