The new Apple campus, which got the name Apple Park, will very soon start working at full capacity and will host 12,000 employees of the company. Apple employees will work there, discuss new ideas, stroll and eat. Lunch will be available in the cafeteria, but for lunch you will have to pay even employees.
To many it may seem surprising. Apple spent so much money on building a new campus with a fitness center, walking paths and other joys for employees, but the company can not pay a dinner for people who are so valuable to it.
In fact, of course, Apple can provide food to its employees, but does not want. Fortunately, a company that knows how to make money better than most people does not plan to earn at work its cafeteria and kitchen, designed to cook 14 thousand meals daily.
In part, the company will pay lunch for employees, but they still have to pay, albeit modest amounts.
The secret of this decision was disclosed by colleagues from the Wall Street Journal. From the communication with the head of real estate in Apple Dan Wiesenhantom it became clear that Steve Jobs wanted to borrow money from employees for food. The founder of Apple believed that people more appreciate the things for which they gave something in return, and less value and value attached to things that they got free of charge. There's something about it.