We have all heard about the free food, gym membership and on-site doctors available to employees at Google, but what do employees at Apple receive for free? Not a lot. Apple instead, creates their corporate culture by making their employees feel like are part of something bigger than a few free benefits. Ex-employees of the tech giant have come forward and talked of the legendary secrecy at Apple. Top-secret projects are guarded by locked doors, which are guarded by more locked doors, which are guarded by doors with unique passwords specific to the employees allowed to work on that certain project. Apple stresses security to the point that employees are limited in their conversations with their significant others.
Employees are all part of a movement of changing the world through innovation; they feel their satisfaction in Apple’s success, mainly at launch events where projects which were secured for months, finally receive worldwide recognition. This culture that Apple has created is not defined by its lack of free benefits, but by its ability to get all its employees thinking the same way.