What exactly is workplace democracy? How can you operate at a large-scale while maintaining worker control of the business?

At neuro.studio, are partners are "worker-owners." They own a portion of the cooperative in equal proportion to all the other owning partners. This ensures equal voting rights for our elections, polls, and operations. To avoid democratic paralysis for smaller operational decisions in different departments of the cooperative, we rely on a series of worker's executive advisory committees.

These committees serve as permanent, voluntary communication & planning structures, open to any of our partners to join or leave at any time. Committees are created by general assembly votes, ensuring a path remains open for future operations of worker-owner interest. Each committee elects their committee director.

The elected directors serve to administrate the various activities of the committee and ensure that committee votes & decisions are executed efficiently & in coordination with the central cooperative operations across our other committees. Committee directors can create management roles within their committees as needed, as well as promote committee members to fill those roles.

Our committee directors form our Board of Directors, so that our Board can facilitate cross-committee action, central planning & communication, and set a central strategy for company direction under the guidance of their committees. Committee directors are recallable by a committee super majority vote.

In short, management & directors have strategy and operational decisions, while our partners have oversite of those managers and directors through our worker committees.