I love these shoes. I have had them for about two years and they are a great shoe to carry with you if you are traveling or on vacation. They are very lightweight and packable, plus just dressy enough for a nice dinner while on vacation.
Not only that, they have support Adidas Adriprene support, but the soles are thin enough that they have an ALMOST barefoot feel to them. Don't expect the same feel as VFFs though. So they can be used as a good transition from supported to barefoot shoes while at work. Of course they aren't designed for that, so the toebox doesn't allow for much splaying of the toes, but it still has some good transition if you wanted something that is okay for work but still somewhat barefoot.
I got these while on a really good sale though, so for the same price, you could get the barefoot leather Merrell's for work too.