Free Geek Staff Structure Rethought

Overview

As Free Geek grows, the administrative and daily task are increasing to the point that it is becoming very difficult to prioritize, optimize and and coordinate tasks within and among areas of the building. Confusing factors such as doubts about ownership, fear of interpersonal conflicts and lack of communication prevent staff from feeling part of new changes and endeavors. Some job tasks are just not fun or interesting, but they need doing nonetheless. Without oversite and ownership, all to often, these tasks remain undone.

This rethink of our Staff Structure is an attempt at dealing with these types of issues. Its goal is to increase individual ownership and managerial-like over site of the various areas of Free Geek while maintaining an egalitarian consensus based workplace.

Departments

• Production (Build, Advanced testing, recycling) 5 fte, 2 paid interns
• Sales (ebay, bulk, comodies, retail) 3 fte, 1 paid intern
• Operations (books,facilities, SysAdmin, payroll, receiving) 4 fte, 1 paid intern
• D4 (Tech support, education, outreach, inreach, hardware grants) 4 fte, 1 paid intern

Department SubTasks

• Scheduling
• Basic books
• Basic Facilities
• managing the group
• Hr Tasks hire, fire, reviews

Managing

• major + minor
• floating manager
  • more admin time
  • big picture oversight

Transition

• each staff picks major, minor
• trainings for selected group members: bookkeeping, facilities function
• scheduling and HR would need to split among all groups