A $35 million tech company is giving employees the freedom to choose their hours, where they work, and the meetings they attend -- and it's a millennial's dream perk

• Tech firm Verve gives employees the freedom to choose their hours, where they work, and the meetings they attend, making it a millennial’s dream company.
• Millennials, who make up the majority of Verve’s workforce, in general work more hours and forfeit more vacation days than previous generations.
• Verve’s cofounder Callum Fergus-Fancey, a high school dropout, wanted to build a company culture that lets people work they way they work best.

Callum Fergus-Fancey, a 28-year-old British entrepreneur, started his company in the basement of his parents’ West London flat. Founded in 2014, Verve is a software platform that lets brands recruit fans to sell tickets to their events, in exchange for rewards like free entry and VIP badges.

Today, Verve has raised $US35 million in venture funding and grown from about five employees to 160 across offices in London, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Austin, as well as some cities in Europe.

Despite its exponential growth, Verve’s company culture has remained pretty much the same since its humble beginnings below ground, Fergus-Fancey told Business Insider. Since the beginning, Verve employees have had the freedom to choose their hours, where they work, and the meetings they attend.

Whether or not his employees came to the office or stayed nine hours, “that just wasn’t what I cared about,” Fergus-Fancey said. “I cared about the value they created for our customers.” Read more

Melia Robinson - Business Insider Australia - 22 May 2018