2013年09月10日
Science of Serendipity Office
Among the installations is a 'lunch button' kiosk, which matches up employees with common interests to have lunch together that day. And there is a 'conversation portal'─a two-way videoconferencing system attached to the end of a long cafe table─to help 'spark informal conversation' among diners from offices around the world, Mr. Rose says. Another is a 'conversational balance table' where an animated floral display provides instant feedback on whether someone is hogging a conversation g-suite cardinal manchester.
And workers in Salesforce.com's Portland office may eventually enter and exit through 'voting doors, ' in which a question is displayed such as 'Cake or pie?' or 'Is your work tapping into your inner genius?' for which staffers must choose a 'yes' or 'no' door to walk through. Salesforce.com declined to comment on the plans.
Efforts don't always have to cost a lot of money. In the last two years National Public Radio has held six 'Serendipity Days' in which about 50 employees from different departments, including digital, engineering, HR and news, volunteer to come together and think of new ideas and projects over a two-day period g-suite in oldham. One idea behind the program is to 'work with groups you wouldn't ordinarily work with through the course of your week, ' says Lars Schmidt, NPR's senior director of talent acquisition and innovation, who says in past sessions he has helped develop a new social-media training program for staff.
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And workers in Salesforce.com's Portland office may eventually enter and exit through 'voting doors, ' in which a question is displayed such as 'Cake or pie?' or 'Is your work tapping into your inner genius?' for which staffers must choose a 'yes' or 'no' door to walk through. Salesforce.com declined to comment on the plans.
Efforts don't always have to cost a lot of money. In the last two years National Public Radio has held six 'Serendipity Days' in which about 50 employees from different departments, including digital, engineering, HR and news, volunteer to come together and think of new ideas and projects over a two-day period g-suite in oldham. One idea behind the program is to 'work with groups you wouldn't ordinarily work with through the course of your week, ' says Lars Schmidt, NPR's senior director of talent acquisition and innovation, who says in past sessions he has helped develop a new social-media training program for staff.
At Boston marketing agency CTP, employees swap desks and offices each summer. The company started the initiative to encourage more cross-departmental contact between creatives and account executives, who don't normally sit near each other and interact much smartcloud
.
Attempts to engineer serendipity aren't entirely new. Steve Jobs famously designed the Pixar headquarters with central bathrooms so that people from around the company would run into each other g-suite manchester. And firms have increasingly adopted open plans and even unassigned seating to get workers mingling more widely. In announcing its recent telecommuting ban, Yahoo Inc. YHOO -1.74% noted in a staff memo that incidental encounters in the hall or around the cafeteria can lead to new insights
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