Furniture Castors and a Boss Free Environment in the Office!

Sounds too good to be true, but the digital gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar business, and for one video games development company in America, their business model has made others do more than raise an eyebrow.

Sounds too good to be true, but the digital gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar business, and for one video games development company in America, their business model has made others do more than raise an eyebrow. They call their company structure, flat, in that there are no managers. Yes you read that correctly, no boss! Everyone is equal, bosses don’t exist, employees sit where they want, choose what to work on and even decide each other’s pay. To top it all once a year the employees even go on holiday together. This flat organisational structure describes a Washington based development company, Valve, where hot desking has been taken to the extreme. Last year this company’s employee handbook caused a stir when it was leaked onto the internet, not only is the work ethic, but also the furniture, slightly unusual. But it works! All of Valves office furniture is fitted with castors, enabling the employees to move around, and as quickly as possible, as described in their handbook. Just simply unplug, move, plug back in and get working.

This fluid movement of furniture on casters means that anyone can move from team to team, depending upon what interests them and it only takes a matter of minutes. Employees are encouraged to move their desks on wheels and it’s not unusual to see office desks on castors in the elevator, on the move to another floor! So does this sound like a place where you could work? Hot desking is nothing new; this just makes the pain of using an alternative desk on wheels away. Just simply move your desk on castors, and plug it in! let’s face it at this company in Washington, with no bosses, no one can tell you that you can’t go on the move!

So if you want to recreate this American flat structure within your own environment, and have manoeuvrable furniture on wheels, the task is simple. Take a look at our furniture castors range, choose some wheels you like the look of and attach them to your desk! The only other next step we need to figure out is how to get rid of the managers!!