A soft play area? Where I work used to have an employees' 'club' with a bar (for after work drinks), pool and snooker tables. That got demolished when they built new offices with much grumbling from the staff. It seems it's not thought proper to have a bar on site these days. I have been in a couple of BBC bars though. Another company I worked for moved us into a shiny new office and we were promised a 'play room' with pool, but that never happened. Maybe your management have seen pics of places like Google who provide some chill-out areas, but they also expect you to be in the office for 15 hours per day plus they make masses of money.
I'm all for making the workplace better, but it needs to be done in discussion with the workers. We have talk of increasing the time we spend in the office, but everyone is used to working from home now, so they need to make it more attractive.
Enjoy your beanbag.
Although we didnt have a bar, a good number of years ago we had an area that was used as a drinking, night out kind of section. I have no idea why. They eventually banned that kind of thing when some people got smashed and were sick in bins and someone was rumoured to have had a shag under a desk of a boss. Lol!
Its all a bit kak. We are moving office and have found out that the beanbags and fancy rugs they have bought which he was showing off are for the break out areas in the new place. Must have cost a fortune as there are loads of them!
I wouldn't have minded a snooker table! :OD
Im scrolling through the comments here, and I see you used the word "kak"! I thought this was a purely South African term! Has it spread across the world? Is everything just kak now?
We have used kak for ages!! I thought it was Australian! It must have spread! We will have to have a fight to see who started it!
The Ozzies! Now you really talking kak! LOL! No fight is needed! That's a Saffer term through and through! KAK is the Afrikaan's word for shit! Afrikaans is spoken in like 2 countries and the Ozzies know shit about Afrikaans! Makes sense, though, because loads of South Africans have immigrated to the UK!
I'm super impressed by its reach! Now I want to know what other profanities from our land have made it worldwide!
I bet it is because of South African people! If that is the case then we want more South African terms in the lexicon!!
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That kind of series would be fun!! Go on, do it!! :0D
Sounds like some office parties I've been to. My last place had some Xmas parties in the office to save money.
Work life has changed a lot. I remember when people could smoke in the office kitchen and I have worked in places where people could smoke at their desks. Now they have to go to the 'Shelter of Shame'. The current place is pretty old and things like a workers' bar used to be more common. The new offices has things like 'meeting pods' and I think there may be beanbags, but we are stuck in the 1950s block where you have to go down 2 floors and then up one just to get to the loos. Keeps us fit anyway.
I remember there were ashtrays right up until the ban practically in the offices I worked. I am trying to remember how many years ago, I think roughly 20 years ago maybe? It was on its way out but was till a thing, especially if you had to work the weekend. It is crazy to think of how far we have come. As someone said recently, we wouldn't vote to allow smoking indoors again. This can only show how good a decision it was despite the militant lobbyists and the like trying to tell us that such freedom curtailing was the end fo the world!
My place got rid of their shelter of shame and imposed a smoking ban on the immediate area around the office. It has kinda backfired as the diehard smokers now walk further afield to smoke before coming back and spend a substantial amount of time away from their desks!