A while ago I wrote a post called The Importance of Listening, in which I talked about how we use the tool Officevibe to share feedback and monitor people’s happiness at work. The tool has been in use for a year now and has proved very useful to us. However, as always, growth and evolution …
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I was recently at a two day conference in which I met various managers from a very large IT company, and I had the opportunity to talk about mondora.com and how we work. March is full ski season for us in Valtellina so, naturally, we got talking about our traditional "ski Thursday", the day of …
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Working together with colleagues in a large open space office can be a lot of fun. There is always laughter, and jokes, and time to chill and have a chat in between tasks. But sometimes it is also very distracting, and you have trouble completing the first task on your list by the end of …
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A while ago I wrote this post about unlimited holiday policy at mondora.com. A few months on, I would like to tell you about how things are working. Along with unlimited holidays, which are still in the experimentation phase, all employees at mondora.com enjoy a degree of flexibility over work hours, work location, business decisions …
It seems that some people are able to have a very straightforward career. They finish school, graduate at university and start their dream job in the same field they studied for. They then proceed to obtain career advancements and become important experts, before finally retiring and writing a few books about their wonderful life. If …
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As I sit here in the office and write this, I'm amused that I'm writing a post in a moment in which my creativity is just not there. I'm sitting in my favourite spot of the office, in a corner, looking out of a window, with a cup of tea and a croissant by my …
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There are thousands of blog posts out there about employee engagement, teamwork, team building activities, you name it. These posts offer useful tips on how to engage people more within a company in order to improve performance, but I find many are lacking a central point, or avoiding the main question: how do you make …
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Italy is a country of complex bureaucracy. Everything is measured and recorded on millions of paper forms, kept for years, sent to various offices, stamped, sent back...a right mess! So when mondora.com's CEO looked into changing the company's holiday policy it seemed impossible. As always when confronted with an impossibility, he found a way around …
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