As Julie Jeehye Park mentioned in her blog post it is important to have good relationships with the employees, and also to retain them through motivations. This can be evident through the company of Pixar as an example. Similar to Zappos as discussed in class, Pixar provides a very interactive workplace that highly encourages creativity from workers, which shapes its corporate culture and acts as a key element to its success.
Inside the Pixar Animation Studios, you will find the 24-hour cereal bar, the Pizza Room, a Breathing Room for yogic meditation, a fitness center, along with live performances, aerobics sessions and various self-improvement classes. Just like a theme park, Pixar characters are everywhere, such as the full-sized figures of Sulley and Mike from Monsters University in the foyer. This headquarters is designed so that it “promoted encounters and unplanned collaborations”1, as wanted by Steve Jobs.
These definitely foster the workers’ relationships and create great motivations with low absenteeism and staff turnover, in which “most people never leave here”2, said Oakley an employee. It is very impressive how they shape the job into a lifestyle to retain employees and ignite creativity and imagination.
Take a look inside the Pixar studios here!
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