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Joy, Inc.
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Joy, Inc.

How We Built a Workplace People Love

Richard Sheridan
Portfolio, 2015

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
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Recommendation

Menlo Innovations, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, company that designs and builds custom software, has won six Inc. magazine revenue awards and nine Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. Its software “factory” is an award-winning work environment. Menlo has no separate offices or cubicles. Every “Menlonian” works in a bright, wide-open, collaborative workspace with high ceilings and industrial-chic decor. Menlo is known for contented employees, high productivity, popular software products and impressive profits. Richard Sheridan, Menlo’s CEO and co-founder, explains how you, too, can create a “joyous” work environment. Although it is openly and joyfully promotional, his manual has much to offer. getAbstract recommends Sheridan’s corporate biography to leaders who want to energize their companies by improving their workplaces and fostering collaborative practices.

Take-Aways

  • Most businesses lack “joy,” but custom software designer and builder Menlo Innovations offers workers a “joyous” work environment.
  • This is especially unusual for software firms, which are known for tense work conditions.
  • Walls, cubes and closed office doors inhibit creativity, teamwork, interactions and simple communications among employees.

About the Author

Richard Sheridan is CEO and co-founder of Menlo Innovations, an Ann Arbor, Michigan, company that designs and builds custom software. It has won six Inc. magazine revenue awards and multiple Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

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