Envoy Office Hacks

Not all work spaces are created equal. Some were even created not for work, but for play… or long, tortuous family vacations. Today’s Envoy office hack is all about how one family’s rolling getaway became another man’s home office. Take a listen to how this video editor hacked an Airstream into an edit suite. See photos of this Airstream Edit Suite and find out how to hack your own mobile office here: http://bit.ly/AirstreamEdit

This week’s Envoy Office Hack might just be the world’s most unusual music streaming solution. Mozilla, maker of web browser Firefox, has tried all sorts of high-tech music services in their Mountain View offices. But the one that stuck? A homemade hack between a micro-computer, a record player, and a whole lot of vinyl. To see photos and to read more about this hack, check out: http://bit.ly/MozillaHiFi

This week’s Envoy office hack turns a common everyday annoyance into an everyday convenience. Data streaming company Pub Nub found a way to hack a common kitchen scale to monitor coffee in the workplace coffee pot. See photos and read more about this hack (including how to do it yourself!) at http://bit.ly/PubNubCoffee.

This week’s Envoy office hack is about the evolution of a company’s culture alongside the evolution of a stuffed goat. San Francisco-based Mode Analytics features a full-sized mountain goat in its reception area. And it may surprise you to hear what kind of impact a mounted beast can have on a growing company. See photos of Marshawn the goat, and read more about this office hack at http://bit.ly/OfficeGoat

Hootsuite is a social media software company based on the west coast of Canada. Every license plate there proudly displays the words “Beautiful British Columbia”... and that same pride can be found throughout the Hootsuite offices. Today we hear about the most spectacular Envoy office hack: a workspace-turned-ski-village. To see photos and read more, check out: http://bit.ly/SkiVillage

This is a TRUE Envoy Office Hack - it comes from our own office. You see, we get excited every time we sign up a new customer. So excited, that we like to celebrate with a bang. Or more accurately, by ringing a gong. But we don’t have your ordinary, run of the mill gong. We’ve got a custom robot job. See photos and read all about this hack on Medium: bit.ly/SalesGong

This Office Hack turns healthy eating into a social psychology experiment, making food nukers stand in the middle of the office and have their cooking adventures streamed live on the web.

When it comes to creating a cool office space, what you put on your walls matters more than you think. Meet a company that definitely lives up to their name. Rethink Communications have completely “rethought” what can be done with a boring, old office wall. This is the Wall of Lego. https://blog.envoy.com/office-hack-2-the-wall-of-lego-985f4afefab7#.66xus0ioe

Welcome to the brand new Envoy Office Hacks podcast! For our first Office Hack, we're featuring Slack, a white-hot software company that’s reinventing the way teams communicate and work together. Naturally, they decided to take the same philosophy when building their offices. The result? They’ve hacked the traditional meeting room and created a brand new type of physical space, designed specifically to improve the ways teams work. If you like this episode, please subscribe - you might just become the ace of your workplace.

Coming soon - a brand new podcast that hacks your office. Envoy Office Hacks is a short podcast that comes out once a week. Each episode, you’ll discover a new workplace that has made their office better, more productive, or just plain fun by re-thinking, re-engineering, and re-inventing the way we work. Subscribe to Envoy Office Hacks, and you could become the ace of your workplace.