Upending workplace conventions?
summary
Three concrete experiments and their outcomes: a 32‑hour week lasted 10 years then ended after scaling problems; a no‑manager experiment ran 18 months and collapses when alignment is needed—it sparks six months of rapid innovation but fails to steer strategy; an unlimited leave policy running ~1 year tracks projects not days and so far avoids collapse. At scale a 400,000‑person firm builds human‑machine hybrid teams, automating routine emails and using “liquid studios” to produce rapid MVPs. Remote work is 50% and co‑working mitigates energy loss.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 0:434-day work week experiment
- 3:36Unlimited leave policy
- 8:31Human-machine hybrid workforce
- 13:03Remote work challenges
- 19:24Encouraging innovation and learning
- 22:14Conclusion and thanks
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