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Freelancing vs Employment – Honest Long Term Review
For most of my working life, I’ve been freelancing. Not so much by choice as by luck, convenience, and in some sense, family tradition. Growing up, my parents were always self employed. Both journalists, they quit their full-time jobs in Stockholm to move out to the countryside when I was two years old. As far[…]Read…
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Lost and Found in Translation: How to Achieve Effective Cross-cultural Collaboration
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Insights from working with an international team, Block Zero.
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How 3D Printing Catalyzes Creativity and Enhances Design Skills
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We believe that integrating 3D printing into our design workflow helps us to be better designers.
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Benefits
Here are some benefits we offer, as we believe they make us a better team They apply to everyone permanently employed at Block Zero. Pension Plan (tjänstepension) You have a pension plan (tjänstepension) at Avanza . This means we pay an extra pension with the value of 4.5% of your salary. The rules are more[…]Read…
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Recruitment Policy
We have an international, diverse and inclusive team, which together creates an inspiring and safe working environment. We always had a balance of genders and we see diversity in different forms as a great strength and qualities to preserve while we develop as a team. Having a multitude of perspectives work as an enabler for[…]Read…
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Remote Work
The last years has shown that there are benefits of remote work and that the hassles are fewer than anticipated. Nevertheless, there are benefits of physical meetings. We want to get the benefits of working together physically while being a flexible workplace. The Studio is the base Employment and work schedules are based in the[…]Read…
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Personal Development
All permanent employees have a budget of 5 working days and 10 000 SEK per year on learning new skills. It should be spent on educating yourself in a field that helps you in your work or helps you develop in a professional direction you want. Your manager will give input from the perspective of[…]Read…
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Daily Life
Work hours and flex At Block Zero we have flexible working hours. This means that you can begin and end your day when it fits you and your project team. We expect and trust our employees to work as much as needed to solve their task. We will expect you to attend customer meetings at[…]Read…
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Project Timeline & Processes
We work hard to keep our processes and structures up to date and according to how we can work best.We have a number of processes in place to support that thinking.One track is the timeline we follow in projects, the other is recurring sessions we conduct as a studio. Sessions and meetings are facilitated in[…]Read…
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Our Values
Here at Block Zero, we strongly believe in not being an asshole. We believe in human rights, tolerance and acceptance. Everyone has the right to feel safe and accepted in (and outside) our office. Therefore we have produced a set of core standards which represent our beliefs and values. Some of the some values and[…]Read…
