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Your office may have a coffee bar, or a slick kitchen with much on offer. Perhaps your workplace even has a ping pong table or a video game area. Well, LinkedIn may have you beat. The professional network’s office in Sunnyvale, California has a 4-piece house band.
This is The LinkedIn Band Hack.
For photos and more info, check out: http://bit.ly/LinkedInBand

Being on the road and working away from home can be lonely.. especially for those bonded to their pets. A live feed between you and your pet would be awesome, but maybe not that realistic. This office hack is the next best thing.
This is Shannon’s Budgie Cam Hack.
For photos and more info, check out: http://bit.ly/budgieCam

Remote workers and colleagues in other cities can often mean different time zones. But like any busy worker bee, it’s easy to forget someone might still be sleeping when you’re madly pinging them for something. That’s where today’s office hack saves the day. Unbounce created a simple signaling system to free up valuable time-zone-calculating brain cells.
This is Unbounce’s Sweet Spot Light Hack.
For photos and more info on this hack, check out: http://bit.ly/1gC5tV2

Listen to how San Francisco-based Mulesoft used a Raspberry Pi, their own products and unflappable determination to connect a Commodore 64 to the future.
For details on how Mulesoft did this, and for photos - check out: http://bit.ly/Muleadore

When you think of how you spend your spare time, pursuing pet projects, building, playing, reading… we’re almost positive designing an analytics program wouldn’t be on your leisure-time list. But it did make the list of one guy, and the project brought unexpected benefits to his company.
This is Joyent’s Mario Kart Hack.
For photos & more info, go to: http://bit.ly/Kartlytics

It’s lunch time. You’re dreaming of that fantastic little restaurant on the corner but you know others dream of it too, which makes going there an exercise in long line-ups and extended food pick-up. If only you could order your lunch with the press of a button and then breeze in to pick it up.
If you emulate today’s office hack, compliments of a reporter at The Atlantic, you can do just that.
This is The Atlantic’s Lunch Button.
To read more about this hack, go to: http://bit.ly/LunchButton

There are times for hyperbole in business and then there are… wait, are there ever good times for hyperbole in business? Sometimes, you can read a company’s entire website and still have no idea what it does. Page after page littered with jargon and nonsensical words. Well, today’s office hack takes direct aim at gobbledygook trying to pass as actual writing.
This is Unbounce’s Dejargonator.
For photos and more info on how this hack works, check out: http://bit.ly/UnbounceHack

We’re dedicating the month of October to beer. Well, beer hacks in the workplace, to be specific. Today we go to a place that makes architectural metals. Vector Custom Fabricating has a small, tight team of employees. One thing that bonds them? Making beer at work. It’s an off-hours project, but one that has had unexpected benefits for workplace camaraderie.
This is Vector Custom Fabricating’s Beer Hack.
To see photos and learn more, check out the blog: http://bit.ly/VectorNector

It’s October. So what better hack to feature than one involving beer! In fact, we’re dedicating this month to beer hacks only. So pop a top, relax and listen to how Sparc, a software development company out of Charleston, SC, lets its staff know it’s beer 30! This is Sparc’s Beer 30 Hack.

Today’s Envoy Office Hack has a name: Danielle.
Danielle is changing the work culture at Lululemon’s head office every day, twice a day. This ‘unplugged’ office hack says a lot about the authenticity of the company behind it.
This is Lululemon’s Meditation Hack.
Check out photos and hear more about this hack at: http://bit.ly/LululemonHack

There’s nothing better than free food at the office, unless you hear about it after the fact when not a crumb remains. One company created a way to ensure any food up-for-grabs is known to all, easily and automagically.
This is Razorfish’s Fish Bait Hack.
To see photos and read more about this hack, check out: http://bit.ly/FishBait

Let’s face it, the act of buzzing people into your office building is a pain in the neck. That’s why we love this week’s hack. Chicago-based LaunchPad Lab came up with a way to re-route a door buzzer so that there would be no more workplace disruptions. Now, letting people in is as simple as five keystrokes.
See photos and learn how LaunchPad Lab created its Rocket Buzzer, here: http://bit.ly/RocketBuzzer

Parking can be a frustrating experience at the best of times. But imagine having your car being boxed-in at work every day. Today’s Envoy Office Hack takes us to a rooftop parking lot in San Francisco - and one inventive hack that cooled a lot of tempers.
This is PlayStudios Rooftop Parking Hack.
To see photos and learn more about how this hack was created, go to: bit.ly/ParkingHack

Money can be such a motivator. Even fake money. Just ask Zappos, the online shoe retail giant. Zappos has its own mini-economy with custom currency, goods, lotteries, even inflation. This is definitely one of our more sophisticated hacks.
Here is Zappos Money Hack.

Today’s Envoy Office Hack might make you feel a little nostalgic. It comes to us from a San Francisco-based company that specializes in innovating all things telecom. Twilio’s hack involves an old school rotary-dial phone and the modern day text message.
This is Twilio’s Phone Hack.
To read more about how this hack was made and to see some photos, go to: http://bit.ly/2bJKYLa

TV isn’t what it used to be.
It’s so much better!
Especially at Mozilla where TV content can be programmed by anyone and for any environment. Hear how Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, hacked together a TV system for its offices.
This is Mozilla’s TV Hack.
To read more about how this hack was made and to see some photos, go to: http://bit.ly/2aYzm6k

Calling a meeting is one thing. Involving a remote employee in that meeting can be another. A little bit more planning is generally involved. But what if you could hack together a device that launched meetings with remote employees at the press of a button? If that’s music to your ears, you’re going to love this week’s office hack: Devpost’s Call Serena Hack.

When life gets out of balance, sometimes you just need to unplug. Restore peace and calm. Even one of the most social of social media giants agrees. Twitter’s office hack is a quiet room in its Canadian office where nary a tweet can be heard. This is Twitter Unplugged.

This is a story about a wall that brought out the grandest of visions and brought together an unstoppable team. This week’s office hack is O2E’s Imagination Hack.