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Netflix takes a vacation from its vacation policy

Posted in Democratic Principles, Management Innovation, employee engagement, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Contrary to most companies, the vacation policy at Netflix is quite simple: “there is no policy or tracking.”  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings referred to vacation limits and face-time requirements as “a relic of the industrial age.”   Several years ago, employees had argued that it wasn’t logical for the company to track vacation days since [...]

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An argument against ‘totalitarian’ IT policies

Posted in Democratic Principles, Gary Hamel, Management Innovation, democracy at work, employee engagement, workplace democracy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In his Management 2.0 blog, Gary Hamel shares some thought-provoking questions about counterintuitive, yet common, IT policies that seem to discourage productivity and innovation: How is it that companies are willing to trust employees with their customers, their expensive equipment, and their cash, but are unwilling to trust them when it comes to using the [...]

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Michael Moore, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ and Workplace Democracy

Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, democracy at work, employee engagement, employee-owned companies, open-book management, workplace democracy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Capitalism: A Love Story, the 2009 documentary movie directed by Michael Moore, criticizes the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general while covering the financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the recovery stimulus.  In his movie, Moore highlights workplace democracy as an alternative model to capitalism. Many would argue that workplace democracy [...]

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