Six times per year, all of @INNOQ gathers somewhere for two to three days to talk about technology, projects, and other topics. Looking forward to this year’s final event in Davos, Switzerland – three days of all-hands discussions about company strategy #innoqevent
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I’ve written a blog post about this a few years ago: innoq.com/blog/st/2012/09/in… … but apart from the fact that my neglected blog needs some fixes and a design update, some things have changed and I’ll use this thread to post a few updates & answer questions over the next few days
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(And I just noticed I casually used “innoQ guy” as a generic term to refer to someone working at the company back then, something I’d hit myself for today)
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One of the major challenges is getting ~125 people from locations all over Germany and Switzerland to the same place at roughly the same time. Today, we have flights from DUS, CGN, MUC, TXL, NUE, HAM, plus various train and car rides
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We’ve had lots of discussions about the environmental footprint of the whole thing (and we’re about to have another one tomorrow). At least until now, we’ve considered it worth the effort as it enables us to work remotely for most of the rest of the year much more easily.
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Replying to @bitboxer
We do have many parents of small kids at the company. Most of them can handle it because the dates are known a year in advance. And of course it’s no big deal to miss one once in a while. But we try to be very clear about this upfront so folks can decide whether it can work.

Dec 12, 2018 · 6:59 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @bitboxer
We also try to be very compatible with family needs in general, see innoq.com/de/blog/familie-un… [ger]

Familie und INNOQ

Der Zeit-Artikel „Berufstätige Mütter leiden unter Diskriminierung“ hat mich motiviert, darüber zu bloggen, wie wichtig uns bei INNOQ das Vereinbaren von Privatleben, Familie und Arbeit ist. INNOQ...

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Yes and no. We definitely do have a lot of male colleagues who live in that kind of relationship, but we have quite a few women and men co-workers who don’t.