I’ve wrestled with this question during my career too. Recently I’ve joined a technology cooperative and I’m finding a lot of meaning and satisfaction in supporting my colleagues and helping other coops to form and do the same. Although the work I do hasn’t changed too fundamentally (working with Rails and doing some data analysis) it feels more meaningful to me.
We’re structured as a Worker Cooperative which means in practice that we all own the business equally and there are no external share holders. In addition we’ve commited to following the “7 principles” - although exactly how we do that is one of the most interesting parts for me of running an organisation like ours. There’s a growing network of worker-owned cooperatives in the technology sector in the UK called CoTech which is very interesting to be a part of. There’s some really interesting things happening around how we cooperate between companies.
Does that help? I’d be happy to answer any questions!
I’ve wrestled with this question during my career too. Recently I’ve joined a technology cooperative and I’m finding a lot of meaning and satisfaction in supporting my colleagues and helping other coops to form and do the same. Although the work I do hasn’t changed too fundamentally (working with Rails and doing some data analysis) it feels more meaningful to me.
Would you mind elaborating on this concept?
We’re structured as a Worker Cooperative which means in practice that we all own the business equally and there are no external share holders. In addition we’ve commited to following the “7 principles” - although exactly how we do that is one of the most interesting parts for me of running an organisation like ours. There’s a growing network of worker-owned cooperatives in the technology sector in the UK called CoTech which is very interesting to be a part of. There’s some really interesting things happening around how we cooperate between companies.
Does that help? I’d be happy to answer any questions!
Here are three I saw on HN a while back: Loomio, IO Cooperative, and Feeltrain.