Collaborative Work Environments

noun a structure constructed by bees to house their colony

verb to gather or store in a hive

• The beekeeper carefully inspected each hive in the apiary.
• I heard there's a huge hive in the backyard filled with bees.
• Let's bail before we stumble upon a hive of trouble.
• The office was a hive of activity as everyone rushed to meet the deadline.

noun a system of organizational management in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout self-organizing teams

• Holacracy is a management system where authority and decision-making are distributed throughout self-organizing teams.
• I heard that company is trying out holacracy, where everyone has more autonomy in decision-making.
• Holacracy sounds like a fancy way of saying everyone can do whatever they want at work.
• In a holacracy, it's like each employee is a piece in a puzzle, working together to create the bigger picture.