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IFTTT stands for If This Then That, which is literally how this web-based service works. IFTTT lets you connect apps and devices through “recipes”. And what better way for IFTTT to show off what its about, than through an IFTTT “recipe” anyone can do? This is exactly what they did, using their company sign as the hackable target. This is the IFTTT’s sign hack. Read more about this hack, and get some handy dandy IFTTT recipes at: http://bit.ly/ifttt_sign

In this week’s Envoy Office Hack we visit Slack’s San Francisco office. More specifically, we visit its washrooms. Slack staff more than doubled at this office in a relatively short amount of time, creating a lot more traffic in company bathrooms. More traffic meant more potential for awkward social moments between washroom stalls. The solution? A little French influence… For photos and more details on this workplace hack, check out: http://bit.ly/Slack_Hack

At SapientNitro, glowing blue walls mean there are bagels up for grabs in the office. Green walls mean it’s time for lunch. And floating kitty cats mean someone hacked the digital walls for fun. The new Toronto digs are designed to inspire creativity and to invite experimentation. These are SapientNitro’s Changing Walls. To see photos of these walls and to read more about how they work, check out: http://bit.ly/ChangingWalls

Some people have office pets. Zapier has office bots. Listen to how this entirely remote team of co-workers bonded over a rogue mom-bot and a bad-joke-telling dad-bot. It’s proof that maybe even virtual moms and dads should steer clear of your office. See photos and read more about this on our blog: http://bit.ly/BotFamily

Weebly is a website and e-commerce company and it has an extraordinary feature in its San Francisco office. It is something more likely to be found in an adventure movie than a workplace. This week’s Envoy Office Hack is Weebly’s Secret Room. To see stunning photos of this secret room, and to learn more about its creation, check out: http://bit.ly/WeeblyRoom

Washrooms just might be the unsung heroes of the workplace. No one likes to be near them. Yet no one wants to be too far away either. If you do find yourself at a fair distance, then this hack is for you. This is the Workplace Washroom Hack. To see photos and learn more about how this hack was done, check out: http://bit.ly/washroom_hack

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We’ve all been there. A group from work is trying to get some lunch together, but no one can agree on where to go. Too many places to remember. Too many decisions; and this happens too often. Enter: the Lunch Bot. Today’s Envoy Office Hack takes on this nagging noon-hour nuisance. For photos and instructions on how to make a lunch bot for your workplace, check out: http://bit.ly/LunchBot15

Sharing the love at the office has never been easier. This week’s office hack comes to us from Bottle Rocket Studios in Addison, Texas. It takes an Amazon Dash Button, a severed rubber hand and a chat messaging service and makes high-performing teams feel appreciated. To see some of these wacky gifs and to learn how to hack an Amazon Dash Button, check out: http://bit.ly/VirtualHighFive

This week’s office hack is a ball. Or more accurately, 20-thousand balls. Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, turned up the fun in one of its conference rooms, but it hasn’t been without a few mishaps. Here is the story of the Mozilla Ball Pit. To see photos and to learn more about this hack, go to: http://bit.ly/MozillaBallpit

This week’s office hack is aimed at the shirkers, the slackers, and the chore-evaders. A couple of employees from a data back-up company in Texas applied their coding skills to a common office problem: the gross, messy work-kitchen. You know the one. That room that everyone in a company uses but for which no one takes responsibility. Well, no longer. To read more about this hack-turned-app, and to see photos, check out: http://bit.ly/Hack12

Foosball and Ping Pong tables have become a startup staple. But one Canadian company has raised the bar. Rethink Communications’ Ping Pong table isn’t just an employee perk… it’s the centerpiece of their corporate boardroom. But that’s not all... See photos and find out how to hack your own office boardroom table here: http://bit.ly/PingPongHack

You can inject play into your workplace... or you can build it in. In today’s Envoy Office Hack we take you down a giant playground slide, smack-dab in the middle of a busy ad agency. See photos of this big orange slide and find out how to hack your own office-turned-playground here: http://bit.ly/OrangeSlide

Not all work spaces are created equal. Some were even created not for work, but for play… or long, tortuous family vacations. Today’s Envoy office hack is all about how one family’s rolling getaway became another man’s home office. Take a listen to how this video editor hacked an Airstream into an edit suite. See photos of this Airstream Edit Suite and find out how to hack your own mobile office here: http://bit.ly/AirstreamEdit

This week’s Envoy Office Hack might just be the world’s most unusual music streaming solution. Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, has tried all sorts of high-tech music services in their Mountain View offices. But the one that stuck? A homemade hack between a micro-computer, a record player, and a whole lot of vinyl. To see photos and to read more about this hack, check out: http://bit.ly/MozillaHiFi

This week’s Envoy office hack turns a common everyday annoyance into an everyday convenience. Data streaming company Pub Nub found a way to hack a common kitchen scale to monitor coffee in the workplace coffee pot. See photos and read more about this hack (including how to do it yourself!) at http://bit.ly/PubNubCoffee.

This week’s Envoy office hack is about the evolution of a company’s culture alongside the evolution of a stuffed goat. San Francisco-based Mode Analytics features a full-sized mountain goat in its reception area. And it may surprise you to hear what kind of impact a mounted beast can have on a growing company. See photos of Marshawn the goat, and read more about this office hack at http://bit.ly/OfficeGoat

Hootsuite is a social media software company based on the west coast of Canada. Every license plate there proudly displays the words “Beautiful British Columbia”... and that same pride can be found throughout the Hootsuite offices. Today we hear about the most spectacular Envoy office hack: a workspace-turned-ski-village. To see photos and read more, check out: http://bit.ly/SkiVillage

This is a TRUE Envoy Office Hack - it comes from our own office. You see, we get excited every time we sign up a new customer. So excited, that we like to celebrate with a bang. Or more accurately, by ringing a gong. But we don’t have your ordinary, run of the mill gong. We’ve got a custom robot job. See photos and read all about this hack on Medium: bit.ly/SalesGong

This Office Hack turns healthy eating into a social psychology experiment, making food nukers stand in the middle of the office and have their cooking adventures streamed live on the web.