Let my people surf - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Let my people surf - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Im back from my 4-day trip to India where I spoke at the World HRD Congress in Mumbai (and did a really, REALLY good job). Ill be blogging about it soon. Meanwhile, My friend Lars Pind pointed me to this video of Yvon Chouinard talking about how he founded Patagonia and some of the unusual policies they have, including setting all employees free to surf whenever they want: Ive set the video above to start at my favorite place, but if you can, take an hour and watch the whole thing. Heres how Yvon summed it up in a previous interview: I?m a businessman, but I?m still going to do things on my own terms. I?m going to break a lot of rules, and we?re going to blur the distinction between work and play. So we have a policy here ? it?s called ?Let My People Go Surfing.? A policy which is, when the surf comes up, anybody can just go surfing. Any time of the day, you just take off and go surfing? That attitude changes your whole life. If your life is set up so that you can drop anything when the surf comes up, it changes the whole way you do your life. And it has changed this whole company here. Your take Are you free to plan your own time where you work? Or are you locked into working whenever it suits the workplace not you? What would it mean to you, if you were completely free to plan your own time? Related posts Three way to deal with off-days at work The Top 5 New Rules of Productivity How to Procrastinate Effectively Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related