The world's largest privately-owned software company didn't follow the normal path of its industry competitors. Dubbed "Sanity, Inc." by its admirers, SAS Institute turned a five-person start up into an international success by encouraging its employees to work only 35 hours a week. What's more, everyone from software designers to groundskeepers and janitors share in bonuses and profit-sharing. How did the company escape the long hours and culture of sacrifice that permeates the high tech world? And what are all those children doing in the corporate cafeteria?


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