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How far is too far for building a culture of "fun with a little bit of weirdness?"

I find Zappos dedication to fun weirdness to be a little much to begin with. But now buying land surrounding your call-center with plans to build an entire city for employees to live/work/play in? And "dorms" to live in? That's a lot.

I'm all for free jet flights (http://www.launch.is/blog/leak-zappos-ceo-gives-employees-fr...) but this is a bit much for me. Guess that's why I don't work there.



I like to separate my work and life (especially when working for someone else) and I don't think I would like to live in a company owned building.




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