That means the job requires participation at our staff assembly — a weekly meeting where we decide upon all business concerns. Every employee is part of this assembly. We try to cultivate a healthy, inclusive, and efficient communication. Naturally, the goodwill of every participant is crucial. The time spent in assembly is ordinary paid work.

Like any other company we have a lot of overhead tasks like cleaning, organizing, acquisition etc. which in our case are not assigned to a specific role (yet). Those tasks are equally distributed amongst us, so everyone should bring a certain sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for self-administration.

Everyone of us owns a part of the company in form of a share in the cooperative. The membership in the cooperative is mandatory for an employment. Fundemental decisions concerning the company and its business are made together. There is no third-party to which the company needs to report to (no investors etc.).

It is important to us that our job is a place where we look forward to be at. We constantly figure out what that actually requires and is occasionally subject to change. We managed to identify some important basics though:

• A good relationship between colleagues

• Honesty amongst us

• Atmosphere of constructive debate

All employees have permanent insight into our finances as well es the wages of all their colleagues.