Case Studies
Examples of organisations successfully creating happy, productive workplacesWork less hours, and get more done!
On the one hand we learned last week that Goldman Sachs view of work/life balance was to tell their interns to leave the office at midnight and take Saturdays off, limiting the working week to a mere 102 hours. A very different approach is being taken by Gothenberg...
Brendan O’Keefe, Managing Director, Epic CIC
How freedom is helping re-think the delivery of public services – a 3-minute highlights video and the full talk
Dom Monkhouse: Happy staff = happy customers = happy profits
From a man who has built two £30 million businesses – hire interesting people and make sure they are happy in their work. A 2-minute headlines video and also the full talk.
Shannon Banks, MD of Be Leadership
Shannon Banks recounts her experiences of happy workplaces in her career at Microsoft and at Be – a 2-minute highlights video and the full talk
Simon Fowler, Board member at the John Lewis Partnership talks Happy
Simon Fowler, a Board Member of the John Lewis Partnership, talks about their unique culture that aligns very closely with the Happy Workplaces philosophy
Helena Moore from Bromford Housing Association and their culture
Helena Moore looks at the approach Bromford take to their staff and customers to create a happy workplace
Could work become a freedom-centred world?
Freedom and democracy aren’t always linked with the way organisations run, but that was the topic of the Freedom At Work summit, organised by Worldblu this week in Miami.
Tansy Drake and Tim Dorsett describe the Innocent culture
Innocent are a very unique brand with a very unique culture – hear first hand from two of their key personnel
Bjarte Bogsnes – Ambition to Action at Statoil
How do corporates be both small (lean and agile) and big. Make measurement your servant not your master.
Kate Grimes – autonomy and patient care in the NHS (27:51)
Kate Grimes has risen from hospital porter to CEO of Kingston NHS. In this thoughtful presentation at Happy Workplaces 2014, Kate explains how Kingston created its values-driven culture, promotes autonomy coupled with coaching and accreditation, and poses the question “If we know this stuff works so well, why doesn’t the NHS do more of it?”
Yvonne Agyei, Head of Benefits, Google (27:38)
Yvonne Agyei, of Google, took time while at the recent Happy Workplaces conference to tell us about the benefits structure within Google, and how Google creates happy, healthy staff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIwtbRFWdA Yvonne has been the head of Benefits for...
Emma Rapoport, Google (41:13)
Emma Rapoport of Google giving insights into “Taste of Google manager orientation including research insights on management”.