Success Stories

We embrace Freedom at Work™ at DaVita Healthcare Partners because it’s fundamental to being a community first and a company second. ”

Thanks to Freedom at Work, our sales have quadrupled and and our market cap has increased from $250 million to over $2 billion. ”

The first time I heard about the concept of a Freedom-Centered Workplace, I immediately wanted to learn more, and quickly started thinking about ways for us to adopt organizational democracy at DreamHost. WorldBlu’s Freedom at Work model ultimately helped us grow and took our new spin-off from $0 to a $175 million sale in just two years. ”

With Freedom at Work, we’ve grown more than 12x. Our growth and success is a direct result of our culture, which is guided by the democratic principles that WorldBlu represents. ”

WorldBlu’s Freedom at Work strategy has helped us grow on average 23% each year over the past 10 years. ”

A lot of modern workplaces adopt designs that end up looking more like modern slavery. We do not want to be part of that broken system. We do not want to enslave creative minds. We get more out of life and work when creative minds are liberated. Freedom at Work is the source of our continued success at REV Asia. ”

We were struggling. We had a structure we thought followed best practices, but it never worked. The team were disempowered, even infantilized. My epiphany came when I looked honestly at Freedom at Work. A year and a half later and the leadership team is knocking it out of the park; they’re aligned, committed and accountable. And WorldBlu has delivered benefits directly to our bottom line, with revenue doubling in one year. ”

Freedom at Work and organizational democracy creates a safe and trusting environment for teams to thrive. As a fast-growing company, we need to be agile, efficient, and make quick decisions, and we are able to achieve that by practicing freedom at work. With more than 45 nationalities in the office, this environment enables collaboration, innovation, and increased productivity at work. ”

We used Freedom at Work during the Great Recession to really engage employees. We needed to save $100 million, but with their ideas, we saved $260 million—and no one was laid off. In fact, we grew 21 percent and stayed profitable even while our competitors were suffering losses and reducing head count. With freedom and democracy in the workplace, we became one of the world’s fastest-growing IT companies, doubling our market cap to more than $20 billion and tripling our revenue and income. We were also recognized in Fortune as having the “World’s Most Modern Management.” ”

Thanks to Freedom at Work, we came out of the Great Recession with a three-year cumulative growth rate of 69 percent, our reputation intact, and our morale high. ”