Company culture

Chapter 1

Needybot

In the not-so-distant future it’s assumed that artificial intelligence will help us with labour and emotional wellbeing but advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon has created a robot that needs help – a lot of it. Melanie Sevcenko explores this experiment in how humans and AI interact in the workplace.

Chapter 2

Culture Amp

How do you measure employee sentiment? CEOs and HR managers are eager to learn what their employees think and feel in order to correlate office emotions with productivity. Didier Elzinga from fast-growing Australian start-up Culture Amp explains how his company meets this need.

Chapter 3

Is the grass always greener?

Is the grass always greener for the sun-starved cubicle dweller? Monocle 24 sound engineer Clair Urbahn has been day dreaming about a life beyond our well-appointed but somewhat dark radio studio. We sent her to Wobbly Bottom Farm to see if working life really is better in the fresh air of the countryside.