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Inspired by the medieval myth of the Land of Cockaigne, immortalised in Bruegel-the-Elder's 1567 painting, this paper presents an empirical study of the perfect workplace, according to the subjective perspective of the individual employee. Seventy-seven subjects from a single organization were interviewed. The only question they were asked was \u201cPlease, imagine the perfect workplace. It can be different from any organization you may have known until now. 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