Company says its '3-3-3' perk — which pays for any 3 employees to go out after 3 p.m. — is good for business

• The CEO of a $3.5 billion security company says its paying for workers to socialize.
• A "3-3-3" program allows employees to go out for food or drinks and expense the charge.
• Verkada boss Filip Kaliszan said it's actually boosting business.

At cloud-based security company Verkada, employees are paid to hang out with each other.

"The traditional way to do this is happy hour," Verkada CFO Kameron Rezai told Business Insider. "We thought, can we do it better?"