Nexocial - first new world of work company in Chengdu

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³Open work style" work at anytime and anyplace

This software company has an absolute "open work" style´: employees can start their work at

any place and any time, and they can always stop the work anytime they want, as long as they

can complete their task according to the required quality and required period.

"Wait and see" exactly 1 year, Yang Jingbo ultimately choseto leave the Microsoft Technology

Center and joinNexocial.

March 25, Yang Jingbo and his colleagues are playing ³live football´in the office. At this time

which is 11:00, in the usual sense, it is the officehours. While Nexocial is not a game company.

"Live Football" is a casual way of the employees to relax themselves during working hours.

The young man from the Netherlands named HugoLeijtens (Hugo), founded a software

company, which has an absolute "open work" style:employees can start their work at any place

and any time, and they can always stop the work at hand, so long as they can complete their

task according to the required quality and required period.

Keywords: Open

Flexible work style: you can work at the office, but you don¶t have to. You can work at

home, but you don¶t have to. You can choose.

At 10:00 that morning, the reporter walked into Nexocial. Unexpected, there were many empty

seats in this company. Justtwo employees gathered in front of the computer and discussed

something, whichreminded you that it was the "working hours" now. However, the office which is

not more than 100 square meters was absolutely not "deserted". The laughter and the relaxed

atmosphere filled in the game room. "We have a total of 15 employees. This one may not come

today, that one just went out ... ..." Seeing the reporter's surprise, the company¶s COO, Zhao

Bailing explained with a calmly smile: ³nobody will ask why the others go out and when they will

come back.´

She smiled: "That¶svery normal. Even the boss will not ask." Since the early days of Nexocial,

we have a "flexible working´ style.AsHugo's point of view: PC + Internet, can be used as a

mobile office; Aslong as they can guarantee the completion of their tasks, the employees are

free to choose the time and place of work. Therefore, Zhao Bailing and her colleagues are used

to some ³absence´. While talking with Zhao Bailing, the company's CTO, Yang Jingbo came intothe office. Wearing casual clothing and jeans, he looked pleasant and relaxed. This young

programmer who is borned after 1980s wascalled "Yang Lao" by his colleagues. Originally,

Yang Jingbo worked in a well-known Japanese software company, Microsoft Technology Center,

etc, and worked as a technical consultant in Nexocial one year ago.After the Spring Festival of

this year, he officiallyjoined Nexocial, "already want to join this company when worked as

technical consultant".



Perhaps, this is an entrepreneurial company which only has about 15 employees and can¶t be

compared with many multinational giants in many aspects, but it exactly attractive to Yang

Jingbo.He is keen on the open work environment here: there is no ³9 to 5 mentality.´ time

requirement, there is no report on the meeting system, and your routines and habits of thinking

are fully respected and recognized. "If you have a habit of staying up late and have moreinspiration in the early morning, you can work at night and come to the office at 12 o'clock, and

you can even work from home." Yang Jingbo said with a slightly shy smile: ³Actually, I¶m the

kind of people who rarely come to the company.´

In Nexocial, the relax room is also a game room: the large LED screen is showing live pictures

of ³live football´, the two programmers"led" their teams have a drastic"competition´ with each

other. Yang Jingbo said, the game room is the favorite of the male programmers, but also the

place of relaxing and a good place to find inspiration. Of course, if you do not play games, you

can also be here to be a "couch potato". "The technology updates very fast in the IT industry,

the practitioners must be creative." Yang Jingbo who has a 7 years experiences of being a

programmer has a lot of feelings: In fact, to do something about the technology is very hard,

except the daily work, but also have to use some leisure time to read some books to improve

yourselves."I love this industry itself, and in such an open environment, I can find a lot of fun

about my work."

Key words: trust

Inspiration is welcomed

If it only opens up the office hours and office locations, the work style can¶t be called truly open.

In Nexocial, the workstyleis also open: In accordance with a normal procedure, when carryingout a project, the programmerneeds to do a feasibility study, submit a feasibility report to the

higher authorities. However, in Nexocial it can save a dozen-page report, and you do not need

layers of reporting.

"If there are someparts which can¶t work, you canfigure it out and adjust it by yourself.´ Yang

Jingbo said, "Every programmer has a different way of thinking, such a work style welcomes

inspiration´

Open style is based on "trust".Hugo told the reporter that to ensure people's freedom,

responsibility and goal is a part of the Western management style, "Since you recruit the

staff,you should fully trust him." He hoped that the employees would be happy to work

voluntarily, not be forced by some system. How about sometimes the staff maymake some mistakes, which will affectthe progress of the

project? Hugo said with anassured tone: He meant not to make mistakes, there is definitely

outside factors affect him, "As a CEO, I should also take responsibility." Zhao Bailing told the

reporter such a story: there once was an employee who affect the progress of the whole



projectwithout reason, the company's Operations Director and Technical Director have agreed

to dismiss the employee. However, Hugo does not agree, he just asked the two directors: "How

to change?"

Yang Jingbo said Hugo had many "tips": if employees make mistakes, he will first ask you:did

you have a nice weekend, anything happened to you recently, or if something happened to your family; only when he eliminates all external factors, he will find the reason of the employee

himself.

Hugo has alsoemphasized on the ³equality´in the management, "We are working as partners."

In the company, employees address him by his name, said, "It¶s easy to call his name (Hugo)

"Hugo is indeed very close and nice to his employees ", you can sometimes see him playing a

game with his employees in the game room.

"There is absolutely no infighting." Yang Jingbo sincerely said.

Key words: teameetings

Work-Life Balance

Even the work style is so open, meetings are of course unavoidable in every company. However,

having meeting in Nexocial is amazingly relaxed. Bailing Zhao told me that people always have

meeting outside instead of at office, such as Teahouse and Coffee bar. µIt is very convenient to

organize the meeting for our small company, we are as flexible as possible,¶ said by Bailing.

As I asked Hugo why he prefers µTeahouse Meeting¶ so much, he asked me with smile ³Do you

like to have meeting at office? Do you like your boss to point out your mistake at the meeting

room? I do not like it, so I think others might not like it either.´

He told me that the Teahouse is a relaxing place where you can have a nice tea and at the

same time talk about work just like chatting with your friends, especially it is easier to accept

that people point our your mistake and give you suggestion, compared with the office

environment.

He said that this management model can make work and life balanced, which he learnt from

Microsoft called µNew world of work¶, and he encouraged more Chinese companies to try this

new management model.

Jingbo Yang said, inother software companies, and he may only bring 40% -50% of hisabilityinto play,but in here, his ability can contribute 100% -120%, "20% of the excess is something

that I get fromsomething Inever knew before."Hugo also said: If the employees have a variety of

experience, and they can see the problem from different angles, then the company can adapt to

the social trends which is changing rapidly.

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