Self-managing recruitment company

A recruitment company's self-management operating system

450 staff, three countries, no positional authority — how does a self-managing company actually make decisions at that scale?

A recruitment company's self-management operating system
Organization

Raise Recruiting

Self-managing recruitment company

Canada (multi-office)

450 staff

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Luz Iglesias

Luz Iglesias

Director of IT Recruiting

User since 2017

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Self-management scaled to 450 staff

Decisions across countries and time zones

Daily distributed decisions at scale

Transparent record of team decisions

How do distributed decision making practices scale to 450 staff in 3 countries and multiple time zones?

Luz Iglesias, Tamara Extian-Babiuk and Sagar Chatterjee at Raise and Loomio's Michael Elwood-Smith met for a campfire chat as part of the Greaterthan Solstice Jamboree.

Update 11 July 2023 - Here's the recording of the event for anyone interested in how a self-managing organization actually works, at scale - the practices, experiences, challenges and example decisions from people living self-management.

Check the timestamps to jump to key moments during the session.

Raise team members collaborating in a group problem-solving session, demonstrating the self-management practices central to their Teal Operating System. Photo credit: Raise Recruiting

We explored Raise's Teal Operating System - a series of practices that staff at self-managing organization Raise engage with daily.

Teal OS: Scaling decision making practices at Raise Thursday July 6, 2023: 12:00pm PDT - 3:00pm EDT - 8:00pm BST - 9:00pm CEST - 7:00am NZST (July 7)

Raise's Teal OS Decision Flowchart, showing how staff navigate distributed decision-making across the self-managing organization. Photo credit: Raise Recruiting / Teal OS

Raise team members participating in a team-building exercise, reflecting the collaborative culture of their self-managing organization. Photo credit: Raise Recruiting

Raise is a Certified B Corporation, demonstrating their commitment to balancing purpose and profit across their self-managing structure. Photo credit: Raise Recruiting

See more Jamboree events at: Greaterthan Solstice Jamboree

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