Integration of white collar and blue collar areas was one of the most notable features of this company which we visited as part of our annual staff development outing yesterday. All is not what it seems however as Østjydsk CAD/CAM (great graphic on the front page of this Danish site) are a training institution so it is very convenient for them to have the computers on which designs are made and the machines executing the designs so close together.
The rest of the day was spent canoing, firing soda bottle rockets, making fire without the aid of matches the Ray Mears way and cooking pancakes on a floating bonfire dressed in waders and waist high in the Randers fjord waters. All this courtesy of the Randers Fjord Center.
It is possible to view these activities as simply the most enormous fun, or not depending on disposition, or at a more meta level about what it takes to master new skills and so on.
Keywords: democratic workplace
