When TransferWise, an online money transferservice, moved to new headquarters in Londonrecently, it installed a sauna in its offices.
前不久,网络汇款服务TransferWise将总部搬到了伦敦,还在新总部的办公室里装了一间桑拿浴室。
This is the sort of extravagance that leads to muchscoffing about tech start-ups, caricatured aspreferring to invest in ping pong tables beforeturning a profit.
正是这类奢侈之举,令高科技初创企业受到不少嘲笑,说它们比起盈利,更喜欢把钱投在乒乓球桌上。
But the sauna is more than a sign of excess. TransferWise’s founders are Estonian. Much of itsoperations are based in the Baltic country. During a recent conversation with Taavet Hinrikus,its co-founder, I was struck by how animated he became when describing the corporateculture he is trying to nurture.
但这间桑拿浴室不止象征着挥霍过度。TransferWise的创始人是爱沙尼亚人,该公司的许多业务都位于这个波罗的海国家。最近我与其联合创始人塔韦特•欣里克斯(Taavet Hinrikus)进行了一次访谈,当他描述起自己正努力培养的企业文化时,整个人所呈现的活力令我印象深刻。
He wants his staff to believe they are part of “a revolution rather than simply the workforce.He wants to foster respect in the office. “No drama means good karma, he says. To instilthese values, he sends all new recruits — from London or New York — to spend their first weekin Tallinn, Estonia, where they take a crash course on the company’s history and values.
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