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This Startup Is Giving Businesses a Better Way to Offer Employee Perks AnyPerk aims to 'enable happiness' through a variety of incentives.

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Gabriela Hasbun
A better bonus: AnyPerk’s Taro Fukuyama.

Forget the balance sheet. According to Taro Fukuyama, the key to a successful company is a happy work force. And what makes people happy is a culture that recognizes them for being part of a team.

This is the guiding concept behind AnyPerk, the company Fukuyama founded in 2013 with buddy Sunny Tsang. San Francisco-based AnyPerk offers HR departments a program through which they can incentivize employees with preferred pricing on hundreds of products and services nationwide. The perks, such as discounted gym memberships, restaurant and travel deals, clothing and free movie tickets, don't expire and can recur monthly.

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