Netstream offers office for shared use
We believe in the responsible use of resources and value synergies. That is why we are offering our spacious and modern office with event facilities in Wallisellen for shared use / subletting. We are convinced that both parties can only benefit from shared use. As an established agile-learning IT company, we value our spacious office in a prime location [...]
All power to the colleagues - now we decide!
We make around 20,000 decisions every day. Fortunately, most of them are rather trivial. But in the new agile-learning Netstream , leadership is distributed and we are now increasingly making important decisions. But what does it actually mean to make decisions? With the move to an agile-learning organization, Netstream AG wants to distribute leadership and respond flexibly and reactively to market requirements. As we all know, "marketing" comes from "market". [...]
Peer feedback - this is how employee appraisal works without a boss!
Who doesn't know them? The annual performance review with your line manager. Until recently, Netstream also handled performance appraisals in this way. But what if a company is no longer managed hierarchically, but collegially? Do we abolish appraisals altogether? Read here how Netstream makes sure that employees can still benefit from the company's [...]
The path to an agile-learning company - a personal experience report
Seeing the world through different eyes and finding solutions that simply work for the existing problems of our partners and customers - this has been part of our DNA since Alexis, Reto and I founded Netstream at the end of 1998. I would never have thought that the answer to the biggest challenge: "responding quickly to the needs of the market [...].
Organizational development - on the way to an agile-learning organization
Nowadays, agility is often seen as a key concept for successful corporate management. However, being able to react flexibly and responsively to market requirements requires more than just a theoretical concept. Netstream AG's journey to becoming an agile-learning organization began back in 2018. According to the motto: "The best way to predict the future is to [...]
Peer recruiting - how a stopgap solution becomes a success story
Almost simultaneously with the temporary maternity-related reduction of our small two-person HR team came the first measures to contain the Corona virus. Read here how our new way of recruiting is just born out of this need. To ease the burden on me, the part-time, temporary sole HR manager with three homeschooled children, I decided to adapt the recruiting process. Quickly, I invited [...]
5 Learnings after the visit at Sipgate
On Thursday, August 16, 2018, nine Netstream employees visited Sipgate in Düsseldorf, as they seem to work in a completely different way than we are used to seeing in companies. They have no managers, no overtime and no budgets. In their book "24 Work Hacks", they describe in great detail how they work and think. There [...]
From 42.5 to 40 hours per week - but why?
The year 2018 has started for our employees with a new personnel regulation in which we have introduced many new things - of course only for their benefit. Among other things, we have changed from the 42.5 hour week to the 40 hour week. But why? And how could we make up the "missing" 2.5 working hours per week and thus [...]
