At Verkada a security tech firm employees are paid to hang out with each other!
Traditionally coworkers would just go out for a casual happy hour, Verkada wanted to do it better so they came up with 3-3-3.
It's a program the company started last April that lets three or more employees expense food and drinks if they go out together after 3 p.m
The 3-3-3 program expenses up to $30 per person, and requires no pre-approval. The only requirement is that employees post a photo in the "3-3-3" Slack channel when they're done!
all 1,800 of Verkada's employees have participated in the program at least once. People usually post in the Slack channel four to five times a day and employees are recommended to use the perk once or twice a week.
If business goes down, the company will have to reconsider employee perks. However, the idea of the 3-3-3 program is to decentralize these kinds of employee interactions so they can plan themselves without going through an office manager.