The billionaire boss earned the affections of his Asia Pacific-based workforce by treating them to an all-expenses paid journey to Tokyo Disneyland on the finish of October, which included a personal live performance with music stars Maroon 5 and Calvin Harris.
Round 1,200 workers from the corporate’s Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Gurugram places of work—and their households—have been invited alongside to rejoice the hedge fund Citadel’s and capital markets agency Citadel Securities’ thirtieth and twentieth anniversaries.
Griffin—who has an estimated internet value of $36 billion based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index—personally covered everybody’s bills together with journey, childcare, and quick observe passes to reduce wait occasions for busy rides like Splash Mountain and Pirates of the Caribbean.
It’s unclear whether or not Citadel workers had unique use of Disneyland, however a one-day go to the amusement park can value as much as 10,900 yen ($74), which means the invoice for tickets alone might have set Griffin again by as a lot as $88,800.
“Today, the range of talent we have brought together is simply astonishing. We’ve created not one, but two firms at the forefront of the industry,” Griffin introduced earlier than welcoming Maroon 5 to the stage. “Together, we have imagined and built the future of finance.”
It isn’t the primary time Griffin has gone all out to deal with his workers to such an extravaganza. Last year, he took 10,000 Citadel staffers and their households on a three-day Walt Disney World journey, which included a sequence of pop concert events.
The three-day occasion, held final December, noticed Carly Rae Jepsen, Diplo and Coldplay take the stage to rejoice Citadel’s success.
Movies posted to TikTok on the time confirmed a sea of workers swaying to Coldplay’s hits, getting sprayed by confetti and whipping their telephones out to file the event.
One TikTok consumer labeled the work occasion the “most amazing party I’ve ever attended”.
Griffin isn’t the one big-name boss to try to butter up employees by placing on an unforgettable social gathering.
Underneath former CEO Adam Neumann—and nicely earlier than it filed for chapter—WeWork hosted an annual Halloween party in New York and a wild summer party within the English countryside. The worker get togethers noticed music artists like Busta Rhymes, Lorde and Bastille featured as headline acts.
In the meantime, Yahoo’s former CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly spent $7 million in 2015 to throw her staff a Great Gatsby-themed party for the vacations.
