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公司该如何保持员工的活力与积极性

发布时间:2014-07-31 10:43:15 Tags:,,,,

作者:Ebony James

对于作为一家游戏软件公司的我们来说,吸引并留住一些具有才能和活力的人真的非常重要。

对于依赖于创造性人才去获取竞争优势的公司来说,具有创新性的招聘和人才挽留机制至关重要。同样地,他们还需要培养具有活力的工作环境,通过工作满足感和生活质量去鼓舞员工们。我们努力在寻找那些具有开放性思维且引人注意的应聘者,他们需要具有强大的好奇心以及批判性思考的能力。我们很看重他们的首创性和果断性,尽管对于我们来说这些技能也必须与幽默感和顽皮的性格维持平衡,因为这能够推动团队间的和谐,促进合作,并鼓舞士气。

技术初创公司特别需要确保拥有最优秀的人才,为此存在一系列帮助它们做到这点的方法。例如这些公司可以提供私人医疗保健,公积金计划等等福利,当然也可以让雇员自己选择硬件。此外,我们还会鼓励各种社交活动,即关于慈善的一些集体比赛,桌面游戏之夜,一起玩电子游戏,台球,足球等等。我们同样也意识到了简单细节的重要性,如在厨房中储备足够多的食物,通过每周的免费食物和饮料供应让所有员工可以在我们的屋顶阳台上轻松地玩游戏与社交。

我们使用的最不常见的一种方法是“周五研讨会”。这是两周一次的活动,专门针对于个人发展与学习。那时候我们会停下“工作”并专注于能够让我们个人受益的领域。当然了,紧接着便是午餐时间以及全体人员大会,那时候我们便会完全透明地讨论公司的表现。

teamwork(from pixmac)

teamwork(from pixmac)

我们会清楚地告诉团队成员,我们重视并鼓励他们做决定并说出自己的想法,因为我们意识到创造性与自主权是共同发展的。这里并不存在门卫一般的角色:任何人可以随时推动生产,我们也拥有自己的工程博客,任何团队成员都可以在这里发布内容。

我们同样也创造了复杂的工具和技术让员工们可以去创造自己的想法。这些工具包括:

持续的传送系统:每一个改变都将经历自动的测试套件,并直接传送到可游戏的环境中。这对于我们的手机应用也是如此。即当工程师做出选择后便可以直接推动应用的制作。

Canary部署系统:每一个新改变都会先部署给一些用户基础,如此我们便可以在完全使用它之前监督它在该系统中的效果。基于这一系统以及其它系统设计,我们便可以做到100%的正常运行时间。

A/B测试系统:我们会在网页和手机产品的制作过程中不断进行A/B测试。

在我们2年的公司运行中,我们只遇到过一个工程师选择离开的情况。通过不断进行一对一反馈以及每个月的同事反馈,我们能够看到并听到员工的工作满意度和生活质量都较高。公司中员工间的关系已经越过了办公室的墙壁,成员们也会在休闲的时候进行交流。结果便是,特别是在创造性技术领域中,我们必须努力去丰富员工们的生活,而不是使其变得没有价值,因为这么做才能让创造性人才变得更有活力。

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How one gaming company is going out of its way to keep its employees happy (guest post)

By Ebony James

It’s vital that we, as a gaming software company, attract and retain talented and dynamic individuals.

For companies that rely on highly creative staff in order to maintain a competitive edge, an inventive recruitment and retention ethos is paramount. It’s also their duty to nurture a vibrant and eclectic working environment, empowering employees through job satisfaction and quality of life. We seek out candidates who are open-minded and compelling, with a strong sense of curiosity and the ability to think critically. We highly value their initiative and decisiveness, although it is hugely important to us that these skills be balanced with a good sense of humor and a playful side, because this helps to promote harmony, teamwork, and morale.

Tech start-ups, in particular, need to secure the best talent, and there is an array of ways of doing this, from the obvious to the innovative. Companies can, for example, offer private healthcare, a pension plan, options in the company, and of course, allow an employee their own choice of hardware. On top of that, we encourage social activities through regular pool tournaments for charity, board game nights, video games, a pool table, foosball, regular company parties, and so on. We also recognize the importance of simple details, such as a well-stocked kitchen, with weekly food and drink deliveries providing us with everything we need to enjoy our games nights and socializing on our small roof terrace.

An example of one of the less common methods we employ is our “Workshop Fridays.” This is time reserved bi-weekly, specifically for personal development and learning. “Work” stops, and we focus on areas which will benefit us each personally — and thus all of us professionally and the company holistically. This is, of course, followed by a catered lunch and an all-hands meeting where the company performance is discussed with complete transparency.

We make it clear to our team members that we value and encourage their decision-making and their ideas, recognizing that invention thrives with autonomy. There are no gatekeepers here: Anyone can push production anytime, and we even have our own engineering blog, to which our team members are free to contribute.

We have also developed sophisticated tools and technology that allow employees to develop and realize their own ideas. These include:

Continuous delivery system: Each change runs through an automated test suite and is delivered directly to a playable environment. This is true also for our mobile app. From there, it can be immediately promoted to production when the engineer chooses.

Canary deployment system: Each new change is first deployed to a percentage of the userbase, so we can monitor effects on the system before deploying it fully. With this and other system designs, we have achieved 100% uptime.

A/B testing system: We have constant A/B tests in progress in both web and mobile products.

In our two-year company lifetime, we have only had one engineer choose to leave us. Through regular one-to-one feedback sessions and monthly peer feedback, we have seen and heard that job satisfaction and quality of life are high. The relationships which exist within the company extend well beyond the office walls, and the teamsocializes in their own time. The bottom line is that, particularly in the creative tech space, it is vital that work should enrich the lives of employees rather than stultify it, because it is this that allows highly creative people to thrive.(source:venturebeat)

 


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