We’re currently in the golden age for unconventional workplaces.
Inside the headquarters for Twitter, Google and Facebook, you’ll find meeting rooms converted to ball pits, giant teepee swings, rooms dedicated to gaming, real marine aquariums, impeccably designed chill-out spaces, and restaurants and cafes where the food is FREE. The food is FREE, people.
Apple is currently building a new office (probably more accurately described as a campus, or a suburb) that looks like a spaceship, while Google are developing plans for offices that resemble what you’d see once you exit that spaceship, into the future.
Mia Freedman, Monique Bowley and Jessie Stephens discuss unconventional workplaces, including Bridgewater Associates, on this week’s episode of Mamamia Out Loud. Post continues below.
Well, we throw a boob around every morning to brainstorm ideas. So it’s sort of the same thing.
With people spending more time at work than ever before, the unconventional workplace has never been so compelling.
But one company, a Hedge Fund in New York, has attracted attention not for an aquarium or mini-golf setup, but for its very unconventional philosophy.
Bridgewater Associates LP subscribes to a policy of “complete honesty”, where employees must openly share blunt opinions about each other’s work and personalities.