Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the prototype ZTOCM or Zappos Tri-Level Office Consolidation Module. We’re growing like crazy at Zappos and one of the rules of real estate is if you can’t go sideways, you go up. (I guess we could go down as well – lol subterranean!)



Let me go over some of the features of the ZTOCM. It is constructed primarily of powder coated heavy gauge steel mesh panels with 2” openings for superior ventilation and to faciitate the sharing of snack items.

On the first level we have Lacey from our Outdoor Business Unit using the embedded computational station to view some topological maps. She also has an aqua duck flotation unit handy in the event of an emergency water landing.

On the 2nd level we have Eleni from our Running Business Unit using the embedded telecommunications station to interview an Olympic track star.

On the 3rd level, Megan is catching some Zs after a tough session of staving off fraud in our order verification department – Metronap watchout!

We’ve also got another concept in the works. Perhaps this Summer you’ll see a prototype of "Project BunkDesk."

Let’s see - most of us have heard of the word metropolitan, metro as in subway, and relatively recently, metrosexual. But what about a MetroNap? When I first saw these out on the loading dock wrapped in plastic, I did a double take and thought “what *Z*any thing are we getting now?” I did another double take (triple take?) when I saw 3 of these things set up in our quiet lounge only about an hour later.

So here’s the bean spill – the MetroNap Energy Pod is a reclining, isolation nap pod – no joke – it is not April 1st – yet. These are pretty cool – they have mood lighting, white noise, adjustable recline and a vibrating wake up timer. For some reason they remind me of the movies Cocoon, 2001: a space odyssey and of course, Sleeper by Woody Allen.

We’ve got 4 of them onsite for an evaluation period and by the looks of things, they’ve been very popular. I regularly see 3 pairs of feet sticking out of the pods in my building. Here’s Zak just after he’s opened the pod bay door – it’s a spherical shell that rotates to cover you and give you darkness and sound isolation. He's looking pretty happy and energetic!



And for the record – we’re not MetroNapping on the job – it’s only for break times.

Zappos, POWERED by ZZZZs!