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Mallorca
The five days were an investment for the future.
The terms "Home Office," "New Office," "New Work," or "Work-Life Blending" are on everyone's lips. Or let’s say: they’re almost a bit overused. A lot of hype, a lot of blah blah, a lot of theory, and meanwhile not much is actually being done. We prefer to get things done, are fundamentally agile and flexible, and just get on with it. Because we’ve long understood the advantages of the digital world anyway.
So in June 2019, we looked out the window, saw how bleak and desolate things looked here in Stuttgart, let the two-billionth #wantsummerback picture be posted by the two-billionth influencer, and spontaneously booked a villa in Mallorca for the entire agency for a week.
A workweek, mind you. To work. From New Office to Baller-Office. No Ballermann, but we kept pushing ahead with the current Hochburg projects. We didn’t even think about work-life balance; instead, after work, we lounged by and in the villa pool.
Because we can already take stock: It was a very effective, productive workweek. Because the team works. Because Hochburg works. Because the clients are right. Because our own server works. No cloud in the Mallorcan sky, except for the Hochburg data. And because working in swimwear under the sun is just somehow cooler, creativity boost included. Another budget saved on a motivational coach.
Mallorca
Working under the sun in swim trunks is just somehow cooler.
The five days were an investment for the future, a boot camp, no, a boost camp, that pushed us as an agency forward on various new levels. The echo of these Mallorca good vibes still puts the Hochburg home base into creative circulation. These team dynamics, team-building, bonding things were and still are powerful.
You spend a few days and nights permanently together, don’t go back to your crib and hood after work, and don’t come back in the morning with a frazzled “Gimme coffee” attitude. Far from the usual living and working space, we got to know each other better personally and enjoyed both the sangria in the evening and the breakfast and lunch on the terrace together.
This short-term, let’s-all-take-off-together field experiment (booked and planned within four weeks) boosted pretty much everything that can promote a team and teamwork, including even more direct communication between the crew and agency owner. For a whole week, everyone sat in the same paradise with their laptops on their laps, well-stretched and mentally refreshed thanks to the yoga class that our employee, a former yoga teacher, initiated. Consensus was: better to wake up a little earlier, work focused, and then chill longer by the pool or head to Palma. By the way, no one drowned in that world-famous bucket. Everyone was well-behaved.
The good old flex-time still has its place in the digital world of work. And our trip was proof that these new workspaces relativize the workplace as a static place. Especially for us as a small, dynamic agency. Of course, as long as everyone is on board. The Hochburg trip to Mallorca was the blueprint for perfect teamwork. Never without my team. Next stop: workflow boost like a rocket in Austria.
Mallorca
