How can companies provide meaning to their employees

The next instalment of Samuel Durand's Work in Progress documentary explores the topic of purpose in work and how companies can provide meaning to the work they do. 

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Work in Progress 2 - Why do we even work?

After exploring the Future of Work as a whole subject in the first documentary, the second in the Work in Progress series looks at the different ways in which companies can provide meaning to work.

This instalment aims to understand the following key questions about working life and individual motivations:

  1. Why do some of us like to go to work?
  2. Why do we join one company over another?
  3. Why do we stay in our jobs?
  4. For what are we willing to exchange our most precious resource, our time?

Watch the Work in Progress 2 trailer

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