Workers call the shots in new BBC Two programme Who’s The Boss?
Putting a workforce in charge of hiring their own boss might appear like a very risky recruitment strategy, but as more businesses turn to ‘collaborative hiring’ in a search for the best candidates for the job, a brand new show for BBC Two will visit three organisations giving it a try for the first time.
Published: 4 February 2016
Who’s The Boss? is a revealing insight into how three very different companies deal with an innovative form of recruitment and what happens when the power shifts in the workplace.
This spring, Who’s The Boss? (3x60 minutes) will see staff in three very different British businesses experiment with this radical approach to recruitment.
Aberdeenshire-based craft beer company BrewDog, national fruit and veg supplier Reynolds, and Beech’s, a fine chocolate manufacturer based in Preston, are all looking to appoint middle managers. But this time, power will be in the hands of the employees, and not the bosses, to decide on the right person for the job.
There’s a further twist. The candidates think they’re taking part in an immersive week-long job interview. Instead, the applicants will be put through their paces during five days of challenging assessments and tasks without knowing that, behind the scenes, employees are watching, scrutinising and scoring their every move. At the end, with the candidates in the hiring line, the workers vote on who gets the job.
Will the candidates make the right first impression? Will company bosses be happy with their workers’ choice? Will you agree with the final outcome?
With 80 per cent of employee turnover being down to poor recruitment decisions, could collaborative hiring change the way traditional British companies hire people?
Commissioning editor Rachel Ashdown says: “Who’s The Boss? is a revealing insight into how three very different companies deal with an innovative form of recruitment and what happens when the power shifts in the workplace.”
BBC Two Channel Editor, Adam Barker, says: “From Dragons’ Den to The Apprentice: You’re Fired, BBC Two has a strong track record of entertaining and informative business programming and this new series is a funny and revealing insight into a new hiring technique that could challenge the way we view democracy in the workplace.”
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