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U AND YOUR CAREER: HOWA UNIFYING CULTURE HELPS YOU SUCCEED CHAPTER FIVE
AGILEWORKING, AGILE MINDS Over the last two years, we’ve been remodelling many of our offices to create a workplace that better reflects our collaborative culture and digital mindset. This has involved more areas for informal meetings and collaborative working, dedicated team zones and improved technology such as extensive Wi-Fi and SurfaceHub technology in meeting rooms. In our London HQ at 55 Baker Street, we overhauled our staff café – called Fibonacci’s – and it’s buzzing from 8am to 5pm with people working together in the new booths. The change – which we’ve internally been calling our ‘55 Live’ project – has kick-started greater agile working, and has been matched
with similar projects in other offices, including Reading, Birmingham and our new City office in Aldersgate Street.
Andy Butterworth , our Chief Operating Officer, says: “I don’t need a desk just so I can hang my jacket on a chair at 8am and
come back to collect it when I’ve finished my meetings at 5pm. I strongly believe people should work where best suits the task at hand. That might be at home, at a client office, in a café or in a collaborative area where the whole client team can sit together to work through a proposal. And the ‘agile working’ mindset is one we continue to promote.”
ROBWORRALL Head of People and HR Director, father to teenagers and lover of his garden office It’s when you are encouraged to be yourself that you can truly achieve your full potential. Work together One of our ambitions is that a Unifying Culture helps us to work better as a collective team. Sharing and applying knowledge and ideas remains one of the most powerful things an organisation can do. It provides competitive advantage, and we need everyone to feel able to play their part. We need the right ‘tone from the top’: X X 90% of our people say our partners always or often display a positive attitude. X X 89% of our people say that our partners always or often demonstrate empowerment and personal responsibility. And it can’t be just in the UK: X X We now work with every single one of our 162 BDO firms across the world on live client projects.
THE IN CROWD 18,000 people applied to work at BDO this year.
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