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Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bringing purpose and autonomy to work

Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Bruce Daisley

Science, Culture, Management, Social Sciences, Work, Business, Workplace Culture

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Two practical case studies this week. Businesses who have pulled back the curtain to show how they brought Purpose and Autonomy to life. Brilliant examples of companies trying new things and having success from them.


Rachel Bremer is the Communications Director at ASOS. She talks about how they re-energised 4000 young, ambitious employees to keep the business on an incredible growth path.


Laurie Young is the Development Director of Thoughtbot. He explains that they made one change that allowed them to get 5 days work done in 4 days - and what happened next.

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0:00.0

Hello there, Eat Sleep, Work, Pete, I'm Bruce, Baysley.

0:02.0

Early morning in France today.

0:04.0

Out. Hello there, Eat to Sleep Work, Pete, I'm Bruce Baysley. Early morning in France today, I'm out here for a bit of work,

0:16.8

and I thought that shouldn't stop me finally getting close to the end of this series.

0:21.8

This is the penultimate episode, slight end of this series. This is the penultimate episode,

0:23.5

slight end of term feel to the next episode where you can wear your own clothes

0:28.8

and we can bring board games in. We're just going to be wrapping up the series. Next week will be I'm going

0:35.0

to a business that has implemented the New Work Manifesto and I'm going to be chatting to them

0:40.3

about their experience with it. Which was fabulous. I went down to Lloyds Bank Group

0:45.0

and met a team of people who've been implementing the new work manifesto. So just interesting

0:49.4

to hear firsthand how they've got on. This week's episode though is a masterclass of

0:56.3

different things that other companies have implemented it and so one of the things

1:00.5

that's happened to me in the course of their last few months is people

1:03.6

occasionally come up to me and they say, we've been trying this out, we've tried this.

1:08.3

And so as a result, what I did is a couple of the more interesting ones, I captured them and I'm going to share them today.

1:15.2

So I went along and I chatted to a business called Thought Bot and that's because I met someone

1:20.4

called Sandra who worked there and she explained to me that their office

1:23.8

produces as much in four days as they used to do in five and they used the fifth day to

1:29.2

try new things out and I thought that was a fascinating way to explore sort of autonomy and how we do things differently.

1:36.4

So I was fascinated with it. I went down, Sandra set up a chat with Laurie Young, who's the Development

1:41.7

Director at Thought But London.

1:43.8

Now, Thought But is a software design and development agency,

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