Spanx founder surprises staff with first class holiday and $10,000 after selling business

Bonuses from your boss don’t usually come like this - but one CEO left her staff in tears after announcing a massive travel reward for all of them.

Spanx founder Sara Blakely is tripping — in the best way!

In celebration of selling the shapewear brand for a cool $1.2 billion ($A1.61 billion), Blakely surprised each of her Spanx employees with an elite trip to their dream destinations and an extra $US10,000 ($A13,000) for splurging while on their excursions.

“To celebrate this moment, I have bought each one of you two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world,” the self-made mogul announced to a room full of her delightfully shocked staffers on Friday.

Spanx shapewear founder Sara Blakely. Picture: Evan Agostini

A viral Instagram clip of Blakely’s big announcement shows Spanx personnel screaming, crying and embracing one another in excitement over the wildly thoughtful work perk.

“And you know if you go on a trip, you might want to go out to a really nice dinner or you might want to go out a really nice hotel,” the benevolent boss continued.

“So, with everybody’s two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world, you are each getting $10K to spend on your trip.”

It’s not clear from the video how many employees she has however it’s believed her team numbers into the hundreds.

Workers were seen sobbing at the announcement. Picture: Instagram/Spanx

The team partying after the announcement. Picture: Instagram/Spanx

Blakely, 50 — who brokered the billion-dollar sale of her undergarment empire with investment management company Blackstone last week — captioned footage of her generous gifting giving with, “I really want every employee to celebrate this moment in their own way and create a memory that will last them a lifetime”.

Spanx and Blakely did not immediately respond to The New York Post’s request for comment.

And her elated employees couldn’t wait to tell the world which part of the world they’d soon be exploring courtesy of the corset queen.

“I’m heading to Japan,” said a sparked Spanx worker in the video.

“I’m going to go on my honeymoon with my fiance and we’re going to Bora Bora,” said another in utter disbelief.

One worker even said he planned to elope with his girlfriend to Sweden.

And for lavishing her team with this elite treat, social media is lavishing Blakely with nothing but applause.

“Sara Blakely is a legend,” one fan tweeted.

“Just sold her bootstrapped company Spanx for $1.2B. Did it with just $5K in the pocket. Today she gifted all 500 employees two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world and $10K to enjoy the vacation. Legend.”

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and has been republished here with permission.