IBM

Negotiated hotel discounts you can use for personal travel (bring your badge).

If all you want to do is follow a bunch of rules and continue to collect great paychecks without really doing much work, this is your place!

Obsessing about "checking boxes" on stifling bureaucratic processes and silly administrivia rules cast across all employees in attempts to be more efficient do anything but.

They keep acquiring the smaller and more agile companies I go work for as their source of innovation.

You have employees, not children. Stop nanny-ing to the point of locking down productivity in attempts to shave an extra few million in travel costs or home office expenses. You might have a few offenders take advantage, but in the long run, the gains will far outweigh the lost revenues.

Getting VP approval to take a client out to a $20 lunch is just stupid when you are trying to sell them $3M of software, especially when you can't reach him on your mobile because the 90-day approval process on international roaming didn't hit your phone on time for the meeting.