Workers set their own production quotas. Workers set their own wages. Workers decide how to divide the profit-sharing bonus money. Workers have unlimited access to the corporate records, and are taught to read financial reports. All of the workers vote on major decisions, such as buying another company or moving a factory.
Workers are responsible for their own quality control, eliminating the quality control department.
There are no receptionists, secretaries, or personal assistants. In the process of making this change, Semco has grown six-fold, despite recessions, high inflation, and chaotic national economic policy. Productivity has increased sevenfold. Profits have risen fivefold. In a period of fourteen months, not one worker has left the company.