One of the Best Places in the World to Work
I know, I know – I just wrote about 37Signals yesterday. Yet their business philosophy continues to challenge and provoke. Yesterday I mentioned their recent move to a four-day workweek and its good results. Today I’d like to commend them for their other “Workplace Experiments“.
Creating a work environment where the employees are “allowed” to have lives, and yes, even encouraged to do so, is a recurring theme here at Creative Reaction, and so 37Signal’s experiment to “fund people’s passions” resonates with me. If their employees want to attend flight school or learn to cook, the company encourages its employees to do so by subsidizing or paying for the lessons.
Another recurring theme here at CR is that of educating and training employees. 37Signals encourages this by giving its employees company credit cards and discretionary spending accounts for books, software, or conferences.
As far as I’m concerned, I think these guys have a shot at replacing Pixar as the coolest-place-to-work-EVER! Bravo 37Signals!
Of course, many of you, dear readers, are in a position to make your own companies just as great. Will you one day unseat Pixar or 37Signals, earning my accolades? You can’t afford not to!
