&gt; It&#x27;s surprising to me that no one starts a company solely for creating an amazing place to work.<p>I know at least one company who did that: Mobile Jazz. I started that company in 2009, initially as a freelancer, because I wanted to focus on lifestyle, rather than business success and I wanted to surround myself with other smart people, but also such that have a similar philosophy in life.<p>We&#x27;re now a 20 people company with our HQ in Barcelona. However, everyone is allowed to work from wherever they want and (if it is planned properly in advance) also as much as they want. Some of us travel a lot. I&#x27;ve been &quot;homeless&quot; for 2 years now and spend most of my time living out of a camper van: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qZy6Vkd.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qZy6Vkd.jpg</a><p>One of our employees is currently taking 1 year around-the-world trip with his wife, not rushing, but settling down at least 1 month at each place in order to work comfortably. I&#x27;ve just met up with them in Bali.<p>On top of our personal freedom and travels we also organize about 3 company events per year, which are voluntary to attend. Some examples:
* Remote office in Thailand: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;working-remotely-from-a-tropical-island-in-thailand&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;working-remotely-from-a-tropical...</a>
* Skiing in the Alps: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-we-decided-to-stop-the-company-for-a-week-to-enjoy-a-magnificent-winter-holiday-in-the-austrian-alps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-we-decided-to-stop-the-compa...</a>
* Summer Camp in the Spanish Pyrenees: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;work-life-balance-in-the-spanish-pyrenees&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;work-life-balance-in-the-spanish...</a>
* Remote office in Cape Town (blog post pending)
* Remote office in Martinique (coming up this fall)<p>We pay everyone the same salary (a fair basic salary), but the interesting thing is that every quarter we share a huge chunk of our profit with everyone in the team through bonuses.<p>We&#x27;ve managed to build an amazing team, hiring mostly through our personal network. Same goes for our clients. We are doing zero sales, but all the work we get comes through word of mouth. And we&#x27;re constantly overbooked.<p>We&#x27;re fully transparent with what we do and even share it with our clients in a monthly newsletter. Now, the funny thing is, they love it. They sometimes even tell us, that they want to stop hire us and they want to start working for us ;-)<p>By giving my team a lot of freedom and trust, they&#x27;ve learned how to be responsible and act as if would be there business. I can even trust them so much that I just took of a whole month from my role as the CEO and voluntarily worked on a sailing boat crossing the South Pacific from Micronesia to New Caledonia: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;KPXI21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;KPXI21</a><p>Happy to answer any questions :-)<p>EDIT: for completion, we&#x27;re mostly a consulting&#x2F;services company: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;</a> - but we also run a couple of our own products, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugfender.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugfender.com&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;enterprise-push-technology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mobilejazz.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;enterprise-push-technology</a>