Koja je veza između salpe i biznisa?

Ili: O transparentnosti kao suštini

O transparentnosti se već godinama priča na stranim IT tržištima, u svim slojevima poslovanja, na mikro i makro nivou, eksterno i interno. Reč je gotovo isključivo o transparentnosti kao pozitivnom konceptu. Ako neko želi da se predstavi kao dobra kompanija, samo je potrebno da kaže da je transparentan. “Samo”. Ostaje upitno da li to zaista i jeste?

Tako u poslednjih nekoliko meseci svi krećemo masovno da upotrebljavamo tu reč, transparentost odjednom postaje neizbežan sastojak u svim employer branding strategijama, a nije sigurno koliko nas zapravo razume njenu suštinu i koliko nas primenjuje transparentnost kao ključni model poslovanja.   

Mi (kao društvo), kao i u većini slučajeva, uhvatimo se za jedan ili dva segmenta, koji često nisu od suštinskog značaja. Tako u kontekstu transparentnosti u našem narativu dominira jedna reč – plata, i jedan koncept – objavljivanje metrika poslovanja. 

Ne želimo da pišemo kako smo mi naj i začetnici transparentnosti u Srbiji, nego da potvrdimo da je koncept transparentnost dobar kao model poslovanja i da podstaknemo druge da ga implementiraju. I opet, ne prema našem modelu, nego osluškujući svoj ekosistem.  

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How We Stayed Afloat During COVID-19

There’s no point in sugarcoating it – when it comes to bad years, 2020 was right up there with some of the worst of them. Health, relationships, jobs – none of these were safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. Life as we knew it was completely transformed, and most of us at FishingBooker are still reeling from it. 

A screenshot of a FishingBooker zoom meeting showing teammates

The travel and tourism sector can be pretty fickle anyway, and the fishing charter industry often involves weathering both metaphorical and literal storms. Our bread and butter is providing customers with memorable angling adventures – but who’s booking a fishing trip in the middle of a global pandemic? With hindsight, it was obvious that our business would take a huge hit.

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Identity, Stability, Lifestyle: Why FishingBooker’s Diaspora Decided to Stay

FishingBooker Recruiter Vedrana Gnjatić knows there’s one question she’ll never be able to avoid when she tells people that she relocated from Australia back to the Balkans: “But why?!”

“Serbians who were born and raised here, and haven’t lived elsewhere, automatically know that I’m not ‘one of them,’ even though I speak the language and was raised with plenty of Balkan culture in my household,” she says. “People have reacted in all sorts of ways – from slight confusion to straight-up asking what’s wrong with me for coming back!”

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Bringing Work Home – 3 Weeks In

On March 9, our team reached a milestone here in Belgrade – we were now a 100-person company! A week later, our office was empty. Initially planning to work from home for a week and see how the new coronavirus was spreading locally, we, like so many other companies in the world, had actually become “remote” overnight. 

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