An Open and Democratic OpenSource Company
In 2005 after the Tsunami LisAndi Family got inspired by Srijan Technologies, an Indian TYPO3 Development Company. So we started to build up our own Company called LisAndi Co. Ltd.
After reading A Better Way to Work - Towards Workplace Democracy and longer skype chats/talks with Rahul Dewan (CEO of Srijan Technologies) we decided to follow their ideas by not only using OpenSource Software, but also be an "open" and democratic workplace.
The way how we work:
We work differently than most traditional companies. We're in business to make a difference in the world we live in. We've started with making our company a better place to work with
- we're an extremely democratic and transparent organisation
- we've got distinct profitable-units who take decisions on their internal process, documentation, project communication processes fairly independently
- everyone's salary is made known to each person
- there's a core-committee comprising of kep people across all groups; this committee gives overall direction to the company
- there's 20% profit sharing each quarter across all groups on achieving the targets; these targets have also been agreed to in the core-committee; each person has a single vote
- groups evolve their own appraisal mechanisms for distributing profits among the members
- all salary/remuneration corrections, including those for group heads, have to be approved by the group and then brought to the core-committee for final approvals; this leads to people setting their own salaries
- people are encouraged to work from home as often they like; only the group-heads are to kept in the loop on their activities (even the holidays and slow-work days)
- We take care as much as we can for our future generation - the kids of our employees and their families.
- we have regular team building and family activities
- we encourage and support our employees to work on social projects and i.e provide trainings of many different kinds for underpriviledged and poor people.
NEWS April 14th, 2009:
Congratulation Srijan Technologies
Srijan has been chosen as one of the most democratic workplaces to work for in the world.