In gratitude for hard work, the company hands each employee 50 ''Icarian bucks'' each month to be spent on gestures such a massage for a colleague. When the spirit so moves, employees move with it. Somebody pops in a music CD and everybody gets up to dance. Flextime A balanced life isn't just just an empty promise at Icarian. Employees are encouraged to work at home.
Employees work hard, and at break time they play hard.
Even the bosses. Co-founder Rani Hublou Merritt, who left management in January to take an executive position at Broadvision, takes the puck to the net in a parking lot hockey game. After hours Icarian encourages employees to get together when work is done. Social gatherings result in long days, though. Here, Merritt yawns on the way to a marketing department barbecue.