In our Creative Cultures series, writer Isabel Chalmers spends a day inside companies to learn how hiring, onboarding, and company culture play a role in employee happiness. From start-ups to design firms and all in-between, we’re pulling back the curtain on what it’s like to work in inventive and productive environments. Today, Isabel is at The Metrick System in Toronto.
First things first, The Metrick System, a branding and design agency with a focus on storytelling, has a really awesome office space. So awesome, that is was listed as one of the coolest office spaces in the world by The Wall Street Journal. I mean, what other office keeps bees (yes, they keep bees) and a repurposed classic Airstream trailer as a kitchen? There’s really nothing un-interesting about The Metrick System, even the work they do is cool (they were the masterminds behind the first ever 3D book printed in space, aboard the International Space Station). After spending the day at the office, talking with The Metrick System’s president, Laurence Metrick, I left motivated, inspired, and with a little jar of honey, made just by them.
