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Warm Fuzzies Creating a pleasant, productive environment, staving off employee burnout and building morale and camaraderie are all important in today’s workplace. Here are a few examples of how companies are doing it:

• Exercise ball office chairs, ergonomics, stress-relieving acoustics and other health and wellness opportunities.
• Office party atmospheres, e.g. stocked kitchens and bars.
• Unconventional team building exercises, e.g., rappelling, making sci-fi movies, and test driving military tanks.
• Sabbaticals (now available at 20% of large companies).
• Mommy drain perks like better maternity and parental leave, creating meaty positions for valuable mothers who opt to forgo travel in favor of work/life balance, and mom discussion boards and mentoring.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/15/06; Business 2.0, 8/06 & 11/06; Yankelovich MONITOR, 9/20/06; Architectural Products, 9/06, WSJ, 9/28/06