We’re raising questions about how corporations own labour – and looking at how our working arrangements could and should change. Is COVID-19 handing us an opportunity to work in a completely different way; to not just transform businesses but to re-shape the knowledge economy? Dale, Andrew and Kristin ride the tide of technological liberation, rethinking the entitlement to economic value that comes from employee contribution. We look at different ways of sharing – cooperative, consulting – and shared ownership of IP/ideas. We ask, what are the new corporate structures that can share more of the pie. Platform cooperatives for example – groups of workers who band together. Technology and generational change are driving change, changing expectations, changing structures, changing resourcing. Locally and globally platform cooperatives have emerged as mechanisms to combine cooperation with technology. Cooperatives allow people to focus on what they are good at and enjoy….so we’re more productive. And how significant is this change we are currently in? Does the crisis accelerate change or create it? And collectively do we have the right mindset to make change to our corporate structures and our working agreements? What are we doing better and cheaper, and what can we build into our new business model? So, who will revert to type when COVID is done, and who will be shown to be more productive, more creative, more kind in the new world? Directors need to think deeply about whether this time is transformational – is their business model resilient? Is it fair? Why wouldn’t we try to entrench the return, so all boats rise as the tides come in? What would the Agile Director do? Join the conversation now.