For most of us, a healthy bonus at work wouldn't go amiss - and employees at one company got more than their fair share from their generous boss. In a video from last year, which has resurfaced, the chief executive and inventor of American shapewear brand Spanx is seen surprising her staff with two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 (£8,000) each.
In the caption of the video posted on CEO Sara Blakely's Instagram page in October 2021, the mum-of-four explains that the surprise gifts are in celebration of Spanx's partnership with Blackstone, an investment giant which purchased a majority stake in the company, leading to a valuation of $1.2 billion.
"When I started the company in Virginia Highlands on the whiteboard in my room, I wrote a goal down and I said this company will one day be worth $20 million and everybody laughed at me, and I said 'I really believe that,'" Blakely tells her employees at the start of the clip.
