“Over the last 20, 25 years, we’ve seen the rise of these perks no one was considering before,” says Lopushinsky. Think bean bag chairs, colourful lounges, arcade games and ping-pong tables as well as common areas with beer and cold brew taps. “We call it ‘the Kindergarten office’, where it looks more like a kindergarten classroom than a workplace. It started with the major tech companies, and that’s the culture people started to copy.”
Lyft is ditching its mandatory hybrid work plans. The ride-hailing giant told employees on Wednesday that almost all of them can work from the office, from home or “any combination of the two.”