It’s nearly noon on a beautiful Friday at the global headquarters of outdoor clothing company Patagonia. Workers gather around laptops on picnic tables nestled under a grape arbor. Some lift their voices to be heard over the sounds of children squealing with laughter on the grassy playground at the company’s on-site child development center. Others munch on company-subsidized, locally grown organic snacks from the employee cafe.
And some check the daily wave report on a nearby white board: “Cleaner than yesterday. High tide @ 4 pm.” Grabbing beach towels drying over various handrails around campus, they take their surfboards from a big storage room, and head out to go surfing.
“I’m so much more productive when I get into the water every day,” says retail marketing coordinator Danielle Egge as she winds her white-blond hair into a loose bun and wades into the surf.
[For more of this story, written by Brigid Schulte, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/...a9229cc10_story.html]
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