For those of you that haven’t heard of TOMS Shoes, it is a pretty neat business run out of Santa Monica, California. They sell shoes that people like. For each pair of shoes someone buys, they donate a pair to someone in need in the world. the company has grown quite large over the last couple years and looks to only grow larger.
The TOMS office isn’t a typical workplace by any means. As you can see in the video, it is basically a combination office/warehouse that has a collection of interns and employees scattered about. Instead of cubicles, they just hung canvas sheets from the ceiling to give some privacy. The environment seems pretty laid back, but you can’t really complain when the business started out of the guys apartment and has been able to give away over 140,000 pairs of shoes.
We don’t cover companies like Urban Outfitters too often, but we came across this office and it was just too nice to pass up. You know Urban Outfitters: the hip, stylish clothing and home store located on a hip, stylish street near you. You’d expect their offices to be a thing of beauty, and yeah, they are.
Urban Outfitter’s headquarters in Philadelphia, PA are like the campus to some Bohemian University. It’s bright, it’ss airy, it’s colorful, and it’s comfortable and functional. Plus, it’s even sunny there! Although, if the FX network has taught me one thing (and it really has taught me only one thing) it’s that it’s always sunny in Philadelphia.
Every so often I have the opportunity to visit one of the companies we write about on Office Snapshots to get a real-life visit instead of one of the virtual variety. Well, the latest of these visits was to Zappos HQ in Henderson, Nevada. Special thanks to Alex Kirmse at Zappos for arranging it and giving the tour.
If you haven’t ever heard of Zappos, odds are that you don’t have feet. It is (probably) the world’s largest shoe retailer, carrying almost one hundred thousand million trillion different brands of shoe. Well, maybe not that many, but close.
As far as their office is concerned, it contains somewhere around 700 employees in two different buildings (get a job there). One thing that you are sure to notice is that creativity and expression are large parts of the company culture. This is seen through each employee’s cubicle and each department’s conference room, which they design for themselves. Everyone from every department was super friendly making the experience extra enjoyable.
Now onto the pictures!
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Today we’re back with more pictures of skinnyCorp.’s offices. If you recall, on Friday we showed you the art that surrounds the wonderful people who brought you Threadless, and today we’re showing you that some work may actually be done in their Chicago headquarters.
One thing that is clear from looking at these photos is that the monitor-to-person ratio at skinnyCorp. is astronomical. As is the crime rate. At least the gunman was wearing a Threadless t-shirt.
Yes, I know, we just wrote about Zazzleyesterday. But they sent us so many awesome views, that we couldn’t fit them all in one post. So here is part deux of their super cool office.
In case you missed what they do, Zazzle lets you design your own shirts, mugs, calendars, hats, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and even stamps. And if you think other people would like your stuff, you can even make a buck by selling it.
For those of you that haven’t heard of TOMS Shoes, it is a pretty neat business run out of Santa Monica, California. They sell shoes that people like. For each pair of shoes someone buys, they donate a pair to someone in need in the world. the company has grown quite large over the last couple years and looks to only grow larger.
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