‘Catered Happy Hours’ at Facebook

Talk about employee incentives. These are the benefits of working at Facebook, according to the jobs page at Facebook.com:

• Medical, dental and vision plans with no premium for employees
• 401(k) plan
• 21 vacation days per year, plus 8 company holidays and 2 floating holidays
• Complimentary catered breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
• Complimentary beverages and snacks
• Dry cleaning and laundry service onsite
• Free downtown parking permit
• Subsidized gym membership
• Catered Friday Happy Hours at the office
• $600/month housing subsidy if you live within one mile of the office
• Standard-issue 24″ LCD monitors and your option of 15″ Apple MacBook Pro or IBM ThinkPad
• Worldwide notoriety by having your face on sample Facebook Flyers

So what’s your company doing to motivate the team?

Subscribing to success

I recently subscribed to two magazines, Fast Company and Fortune, even though both are available for free online. There’s something different about holding the pages in your hand, as if somehow you can channel the wisdom and knowledge through your fingertips. Your own potential for success immediately seems more tangible, more possible, when you flip through the magazines and read those articles about the twenty-something entrepreneurs who carved a life out of practically nothing, or the start-up company that survived a succession of embarrassing mistakes. Fast Company’s May cover story about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was more than inspiring; it reaffirmed my belief that anyone who is talented and works hard will succeed, undoubtedly and inevitably. These are subscriptions not only to two worthwhile magazines, but to a powerful mindset.