Go to work, go surfing.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Feng Lunfeng Ma Niu” (ID: fengluntalk ), the author is a horse.
Cover title map|”Three silly Bollywood”
On the first day of the holiday, you just pulled the whole family back and forth from the scenic spot and met the boss with a smile. “The weather is good today, I am going to work, let’s go surfing!” How to do?
Don’t be busy laughing at this whimsical question and continue this conversation–
“What about work?”
“Come on the waves and come back to do the same.”
“But I have to pick up my children on time.”
“Send a company, there is a child development center.”
Next, with a group of equally exhausted colleagues, you rushed into the company’s locker room, brought a surfboard, and the boss drove the company shuttle to the coast with you. After that, everyone went back to the company with wetness. Paddling, chasing the waves, and intimate contact with the sea for a few hours to sweep away the lazyness of the holiday, your heart beats like a drum, and together return to the rhythm of the usual battle.
When the children are out of school, some people take the baby to the company, put them in the nursery room of professional care, continue to work overtime, some people have come home with work and baby, enjoy the double blow of primary school work and work report. The pleasure.
There is no punching, and there is no need to go to work on time. The company manages children and encourages all kinds of outdoor sports. The boss has the highest rate of appearance. He said that he is going to work in the office. If there is such a company, would you like to go? ?
Whether you like it or not, I am willing to do it anyway
The dream is to have it becauseThere is such a company in the world that does not take the usual path, called Patagonia, specializing in outdoor sports goods. The boss is called Yvonne Joynard. When he runs this company. , issued a sigh: “We are very strange, even someone will be willing to run a company that makes employees painful.”
So, what is this company that tries to keep employees from suffering?
Doing a part-time family business
A few days ago, a well-received documentary “Freehand Rock Climbing” was released. The heroine Hornod tried more than 1,000 times and finally climbed up to 838 meters of Emirates rock without rope protection. This is the world’s largest granite monolith, equivalent to 3.5 CCTV pants.
Life and death climbing is shocking, but behind this feat, thanks to the founder of Patagonia, Ivan Joynad, if it is not the cross-border business path of the old rock climbers Hornold may not be faced with a natural boulders that are difficult to climb, but a “artificial training ground” with dense nails.
Artificial climbing wall like this
As early as 1964, Ivan Joynad climbed the Emirates Rock. In order to finance his favorite rock climbing, Joynard and his friends took some hand-made mountaineering tools, mainly rock nails, which are used to embed rock joints to provide the climbers with a focus. tool.
Unlike a startup that works hard, this small workshop is like a part-time job. The boss, the workers and the sales are all of them. The shop is opened in the straw shed outside the workshop. There is no advertisement, no appraisal book and production certificate. This is a “three no” company. After 6 years of intermittent opening, it has become The largest provider of rock climbing equipment in the United States at the time.
In the era when there was no single order, it was able to capture such a large sales volume, just because these products are easy to use, can be used, and can be used with confidence. Insiders know that Joey Nad and his friends are these things. The first experience of people, at a height of a few hundred meters, if their own things go wrong, then the first loss is not profit and reputation, but their own lives.
Because quality is of the utmost importance, when there are more and more orders and you have to recruit people outside, Joynard is the first to consider friends and relatives of friends. This workshop is not a simple colleague relationship, no Point “skirt offIt cannot be one of them.
Early employee photos
So, from the initial batch of employees, to the key employees in the expansion period, everyone is attracted to the situation. When the employees of the company have problems with marriage, pregnancy, and children, Joey Nader has to consider softer. The more humane starting point, leaving these key employees.
Pregnant? No problem, expectant mothers enjoy 16 months of full-pay maternity leave and 4 months of unpaid maternity leave, and prospective fathers have 12 months of full-paying paternity leave. After 8 weeks, the parents can bring the baby to work, put it in the child development center, can play and jump, and accompany the person. It is not a dream to become a parent-child time during the lunch break.
Aspire to freedom? No problem, no matter whether you go surfing, fishing or playing volleyball, there is always hot water waiting for you in the changing room. After you are fully charged, I believe that your efficiency will be higher.
“The company is not a prison, and the parent-child time should not be a visitor.”
In the beginning, Joynard joked that the company was a “family business”. There was no distinction between employees and bosses. It was trust and affection, not the cold salary figures.
When benefits and the number of employees expand together, Joynard still insists that everyone is a sports enthusiast and can use his company’s products. Only then will the product not be regarded as a job. Come and do it.
In this way, the Patagonia company became the first company in the United States to start maternity leave and paternity leave, and was one of the first companies to set up a child development center. It has been repeatedly named as “100 Best Employers”. “The company that is most suitable for working mothers.”
Maybe some people will feel that these benefits are inexplicable. But when I think about it, outdoor sports represent freedom. If a company that does outdoor sports is not free, isn’t it more strange?
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