Areas to investigate regarding forming a worker-owned collective

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on April 30, 2011 - 9:06pm

[very rough first brainstorm]

In the form of questions to be asked of other web shops, Drupal companies, startups, multinational corporations, radical organizations, etc.

What is your legal structure? Why was this chosen?

What are your decision-making processes?

What are your hiring policies?

How do you handle, taxwise and legally, international employees? Contractors?

What do you do for health insurance? What are your policies for receiving?

How do you decide who does what?

What percentage of billed time do you pass on to the contractor?

What bonuses or profit sharing do you do?

What sort of work do you receive/do?

What sort of work do you seek?

What sort of work would you ideally do?

What skills do you need to reach outside your company for?

What skills do you want to move in-house?

What skills do you have?

What skills do you have excess capacity in?

Leapfrog

How do you fund development of code you contribute back to the community?

What project(s) would you fund (contribute toward funding) if you had a way to / were sure they'd get done?

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