My slump before this was undone by turning my living room into a giant ball pit.

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And from someone who just went through the process of obtaining a real-life building variance, I can assure you that City Hall isn't exactly the ball pit at Chuck E.

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But animals aside, party goers can continue to monkey around at the silent disco, where you dance to music played through individual headphones, or in the adult-sized playroom, complete with a giant ball pit.

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Although there are office spaces where employees are able to enjoy lolling in a ball pit, getting to the lobby via a slide, having a meeting in an igloo, or getting tattooed in their lunch hour, keeping employees happy is a lot simpler: of 1, 000 workers surveyed by Goodman Property, 63% professed loyalty to a company that is well-heated and well-lit.

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The third-row bench is like the ball-pit at IKEA: kids only.

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