WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

1000 things we tried for new work. Here are the results.

Niklas Wiesauer

Can a 36-hour workweek and transparent salaries cure employee burnout? Discover the exact 'new work' experiments one agency used to build a high-retention culture.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 3 min

Defining new work and measuring employee happiness

New work dynamics focus on making employees happy, retaining talent, and continuously measuring satisfaction.

#2 about 4 min

Company background and the impact of workplace stress

High levels of stress and burnout in the media industry drive the need to improve working conditions and overall well-being.

#3 about 3 min

Transitioning to a reduced 36-hour work week

Reducing standard weekly hours and eliminating all-in contracts helps compensate employees fairly without sacrificing productivity.

#4 about 2 min

Protecting employee focus with communication rules and OKRs

Limiting instant messaging, reducing default meeting times, and introducing OKRs help teams maintain productivity within shorter weeks.

#5 about 3 min

Balancing unlimited vacation and remote work culture

Unlimited vacation and remote work policies rely heavily on establishing mutual trust during the hiring process.

#6 about 3 min

Fostering connection through regular team offsite gatherings

Combining large annual offsites with small monthly gatherings builds lasting connections in a remote-first team.

#7 about 4 min

Redesigning office spaces for diverse work needs

Creating specific work zones and giving employees dedicated budgets for improvements encourages voluntary in-person attendance.

#8 about 4 min

Creating a transparent and predictable salary model

A customized formula factoring base inflation, role, company success, and loyalty provides financial transparency and security.

#9 about 1 min

Gamifying employee growth with functional development plans

Structured development plans that track skill acquisition and recommend training help employees visualize their long-term career progression.

#10 about 3 min

Aligning company benefits with core organizational purpose

Connecting new work initiatives and client events to a core purpose ensures long-term employee engagement.

#11 about 2 min

Focusing on implementation rigor over new initiatives

Prioritizing the successful execution of existing models before adding new benefits maintains a high standard of workplace quality.

#12 about 2 min

Balancing psychological safety with strict performance expectations

Maintaining trust in a remote culture requires separating from employees who consistently violate agreements and negatively impact teams.

#13 about 2 min

Measuring productivity and team output with OKRs

Balancing daily business tasks with structured goals remains a key challenge when assessing productivity in shortened work weeks.

Matching moments

3:28 min

Fostering flexibility, remote work, and personal wellbeing in tech

Eva-Maria Weidner Eva-Maria Weidner · World Congress 2024

3:41 min

Sustaining company culture against fully remote competition models

Oliver Winzenried +4 · World Congress 2023

2:10 min

Modernizing corporate hierarchies and remote work cultures

Anu Bharadwaj Anu Bharadwaj +3 · World Congress 2025

3:53 min

Designing modern workplaces around essential human needs

Rudi Bauer Rudi Bauer +1 · Cappuccino with HR

2:28 min

Upgrading corporate benefits to provide real value to technical employees

Rudi Bauer +2 · Cappuccino with HR

1:13 min

Evaluating hybrid work models and office return policies

Sue Quackenbush Sue Quackenbush · World Congress 2024

More from World Congress 2024

Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI Strategies Panel thumbnail
24:07
12 months ago

Beyond the Hype: Real-World AI Strategies Panel

Mike Butcher, Jürgen Müller, Katrin Lehmann, Tobias Regenfuss

Carl Lapierre - Exploring Advanced Patterns in Retrieval-Augmented Generation thumbnail
21:17
almost 2 years ago

Carl Lapierre - Exploring Advanced Patterns in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Carl Lapierre

Coding an Immersive Copilot using Unity / .NET and Azure OpenAI! thumbnail
31:50
about 2 years ago

Coding an Immersive Copilot using Unity / .NET and Azure OpenAI!

Zaid Zaim

Building a diverse tech company: The power of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging thumbnail
29:43
about 2 years ago

Building a diverse tech company: The power of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Sue Quackenbush

Dapr in Practice thumbnail
24:08
about 2 years ago

Dapr in Practice

marcklefter

Minimising the Carbon Footprint of Workloads thumbnail
27:46
about 2 years ago

Minimising the Carbon Footprint of Workloads

Michael Mueller

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:50–17:20

Stage 4

Engineering Moneyball: How We Benchmarked Google vs Meta

Jirka Bachel

Co-Founder & CEO

Jirka Bachel
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 14:10–14:40

Outdoor Stage

Who Did the Work?

Beth Rudden

Runs Bast AI. Still writes the code.

Beth Rudden
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:30–16:40

Outdoor Stage

12 Names for the Same Thing: Why Developer Experience Can't Grow Without a Common Language

Artem Mukhin

Software Engineer at Microsoft

Artem Mukhin
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 14:50–15:20

Stage 9

How to generate business value through performance optimizations

Nikolai Sidiropulo

Software Engineer at Meta

Nikolai Sidiropulo
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00

Stage 4

Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices

Garvit Kataria, Sahil Sabharwal

Garvit Kataria
Sahil Sabharwal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 10:20–10:50

Outdoor Stage

From Candidate Experience to Competitive Advantage

Brittany Pollari

Senior Talent Partner at Awin

Brittany Pollari

Related videos

Employee Happiness: The Underrated Growth Engine thumbnail
32:57
Cappuccino with HR • over 1 year ago

Employee Happiness: The Underrated Growth Engine

Rudi Bauer, Daisy Ilaria

Beyond the 9–5: Designing Work Around Humans thumbnail
36:39
Cappuccino with HR • over 1 year ago

Beyond the 9–5: Designing Work Around Humans

Rudi Bauer, Gina Schinkel

How to make a 4 day week work for everyone thumbnail
58:18
World Congress 2022 • over 4 years ago

How to make a 4 day week work for everyone

Kit Barclay, Jake Levine

Creating healthy high performing organizations - the missing link thumbnail
28:24
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Creating healthy high performing organizations - the missing link

Eva-Maria Weidner

Remote Work Is a Revolution — Not a Perk thumbnail
10:59
Europe 2026 Virtual • 3 months ago

Remote Work Is a Revolution — Not a Perk

Krunoslav Koprivnjak

Cracking the Code to Tech Team Satisfaction thumbnail
19:39
World Congress 2025 • about 1 year ago

Cracking the Code to Tech Team Satisfaction

Pauline Pagliaro

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.