Cleanliness is next to Godliness
#82 in the Green Goldfish Project – Evernote
Taken from an NY Times interview by Adam Bryant with CEO Phil Libin:
Probably the thing that we do that people love the most, though, is housekeeping. If you work at Evernote, you get professional housecleaning twice a month.
Q. What gave you that idea?
We thought that we needed to get spouses and significant others on our side. I want the pressure from them to be, “You better not be thinking about leaving Evernote.” I don’t want the pressure to be, “Maybe you should think about going somewhere else?
Today’s Lagniappe (a little something extra thrown in for good measure) – Here’s a YouTube video on Evernote being a 100 year company:
The Green Goldfish Project is a quest to find 1,001 examples of marketing lagniappe for employees. Green goldfish are the little signature extras given to employees. They help differentiate a company, increase employee retention and drive positive WoM.
