There's a new breed of startups out there - the kind that has a work culture that emphasises on creative thinking and collaboration among different departments. To do this, they provide a plethora of activities including health and wellness sessions, team outings, hobby classes, provisions for indoor games, movies, book clubs and much more.
How would you feel if your company allows you to get your pet at work? Or what if they organise a cake-fight for all the employees in the office itself? Sounds fun, right? This is what Indian startups are currently doing to make their employees imagine more and brainstorm for innovative ideas.
Fun specialists at UrbanClap
On-demand service company, UrbanClap has specially formed a team of four members to organise fun activities for the employees.
Cake fight!
Automobile marketplace Droom recently organised a 90-minute cake fight for employees as 'break-out' time
Pets at work
Four-year-old DogSpot, an online pet supplies store, allows employees to bring their pets to work, which has helped "fill gaps in inter-department communication," said co-founder Rana Atheya.
Poker nights
For gaming company Junglee Games, one of its periodic poker nights led to the creation of a new variant of the popular three-card game 'teen-patti', called Royal Teen Patti, which has attracted 2 million users.
Beer and pizza Hackathon
Home design and decor platform LivSpace held a 48-hour design hackathon that included beer and pizza on the office. Its designers were presented 1,000 photographs and design software and "we asked them to create beautiful imagery," said co-founder and CEO, Anuj Srivastava. The company revamped its website with these images, and has been attracting at least 10,000 page visitors since June, from about 3,000 earlier.
(Inputs from Economic Times and Business Insider | representational images only)