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"One great Idea doesn't make a great company - Management today means, to create an inspiring environment where thousands of new ideas evolve every day and where employees share, develop and implement their ideas collaboratively. The success of an enterprise today depends on its ability to find a balanced culture of innovation and implementation".

Markus Hegi - CEO


SHARING

If you enter metalayer, you will not find any private or personal spaces and assigned workplaces and computers. Every employee, and especially the team leaders and management often change their workplaces many times a day, acting as 'knowledge distributors' and 'inspirers'. As all data is kept on the internal comties, shifting of workplaces takes no time and effort. SHARING is the basis of our culture and is a part of our day-to-day life.

OPEN SPACES

Our office space is 'minimalist' and we have removed any physical or communication walls in the organization. We have applied the same basic rules as in the development of the metalayer platform. We made the space as open and inspiring as possible to give creative minds space to innovate.

We do not encourage any rigid structures and hierarchies. The focus in metalayer is on the 'authority of knowledge' and not on the 'authority of position'. Errors and mistakes are welcomed, openly discussed and are learning sources. With open minds metalayer employees work more freely and concentrate on knowledge creation and distribution, bringing value to the entire organization.

TRANSPARENCY

All decisions and policies are publicly discussed on the layer for everyone to think about and discuss. The concept of confidentiality in metalayer has been reduced to a bare minimum. Transparency not only reduces risks, but it is also the only way to create TRUST in a free environment with focus on innovation. This ensures a free flow of knowledge and performance. Transparent communication and open discussion is the only way to create a learning environment and a long-term success strategy.

COLLABORATION

"None of us is as smart as all of us". We strongly believe in sharing and live collaboratively. All metalayer employees work closely in synchronization and the amount of many-to-many collaboration is very high. Co-creation, co-working, co-learning are the fundamental values of metalayer. All work and idea creation takes place on the comties of the layer, which gives every employee the possibility to participate and discuss all work under progress. Collaboration has been practiced and made a part of everyday work at metalayer.

THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING

Confusion is another permanent element of our culture. Socrates, with his famous sentence 'I know, I know nothing' has taught us, that un-learning and confusion are the first necessary steps towards new ideas and learning.

The learning process in metalayer never stops, and the same is true for un-learning and confusion. Our employees are knowledge driven learning individuals more than anything else. To be rigid is to be static and only open minds with a learning spirit can manifest and harness the great potential of knowledge.

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