Company Where Workers Never Leave The Office

1 August, 2013

Foreign

It's past midnight, but many staffers at Enplug, an advertising-technology company, are milling about the office in their T-shirts and boxers, writing code and talking strategy. Others are already in bed, sound asleep.


Enplug's office is a six-bedroom, three-bathroom Ranch-style home in the ritzy Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. Twelve of the company's 37 employees, including the chief executive, live and work there.

The idea is to live and breathe work—24 hours a day, seven days a week—without the commute and few outside distractions.

Employees and managers meet, work, eat, clean, exercise and sleep in the same space. And while there are occasional uncomfortable moments, such as nudging your boss to do the dishes, companies like Enplug say it is good for professional relationships, saves on rent and travel costs and is often just plain fun. Employees who choose to live in such arrangements are generally single 20-somethings who have recently left dorm life.

"We don't try to separate work life from our personal life," says Nanxi Liu, the 23-year-old co-founder and CEO of Enplug, which creates digital billboards, incorporating tweets and other social-media streams. "It's a little bit cultish," she says. "It is also extremely efficient."

At the Enplug house, work literally gets done around the clock. Engineers often pull all-night coding sessions and roll out of bed around midday, while account managers wake up hours earlier to attend client meetings that are typically held offsite in cafes or clients' offices.

"We work 24/7. We code. We go to bed. We wake up. We code," says Alex Ross, 23, the firm's chief technology officer and one of Ms. Liu's roommates.

Enplug's five co-founders, most of them recently out of college, started rooming together last year to save money, working out of their small apartment—a familiar scenario for many startups.

But as the company grew, they maintained their live-work arrangement. Instead of renting a separate office space, the Enplug staff simply moved into a bigger house.

Most of the staffers living in the house get paid a modest stipend in lieu of salary, while the founders forgo salaries altogether, funneling company earnings back into rent, utilities and large boxes of Cheerios. Chores such as housecleaning and dishes are shared among the roommates and a maid comes in once a month to clean, but there are basically no formal house rules.

Two Enplug employees got married to each other just weeks before moving into the house in November.

"We were a little skeptical living together with lots of people in the house," says Bruno Denuit-Wojcik, who moved in with his wife Justyna. The couple, both Enplug software developers in their 30s, say the practical perks, such as free food and rent, make up for the lack of privacy.

Source: http://news.naij.com/42141.html

Okay na. Psychos. No lele sha, na when oga on the top impregnate another person wife na him company go scatter patapata!

This one na another thing ooo. Though I understand that it will definetely improve output if they are focused. And maybe they are all singles.
I can't imagine married people working here.