FLOW, INC.
若水國際股份有限公司
Awards and Recognition:
2021
Company details
Address
6F., No. 2, Sec. 2, Roosevelt Rd.,
Zhongzheng Dist, Taipei City 100,
Taiwan
6F., No. 2, Sec. 2, Roosevelt Rd., Zhongzheng Dist, Taipei City 100, Taiwan
Industry
IT
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Head Count
70
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Flow Inc.
Flow is a social enterprise that takes both profitability and public welfare into account. Founded in 2007 by Steve Chang, the Founder of Trend Micro. Flow committed to creating new employment opportunities in the technology industry and a friendly environment for people with disabilities.In 2013, Flow established the world's first BIM (3D Building Information Modeling) integrated service business that adapted the social enterprise concept. Flow trained the people with disabilities who could work on-site to be BIM engineers. Further developed the AI Data Service department in 2018; Flow taught home-based people with severe disabilities to be AI data annotators. Flow established the subsidiary Flow Japan Inc in Tokyo, Japan, and replicated this successful business model overseas.
"Vision-alignment" is Flow's core value shared by our employees and clients.
Flow is committed to enabling people with disabilities to become human assets and solve social problems. This kind of philosophy penetrates the company and even to their customers through actual business collaborations. This mission-oriented work can drive the employees to be more confident when facing challenges and allows the people with disabilities staff to explore more possibilities for their careers through a stable working environment and new job categories. By breaking through the traditional workplace barriers and building an open environment that curates every team member's synergy, Flow not just meets Goal 8 of the United Nations SDGs, "Appropriate Work and Economic Growth," and implements diversity and equal rights in the workplace.Building "psychological security" for a diverse team to grow together.
Flow's employees come from various professionals, such as technology, business management, social worker, psychology, and occupational therapy. The current recruitment of talents ranges across AI and the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. On top of that, employees with disabilities cover 80% of the Taiwan government's disability categories.
Flow lets their employees understand each other with compassion from work to daily lives through monthly psychology short talks guided by counseling psychologists, workshops for understanding different disabilities, check-in, and check-out culture in daily meetings. The cultivation of "psychological security" in the workplace allows everyone to believe that their opinions can be heard and evaluated. A flat organization with horizontal communication tears down the silo between departments and motivates the teams to challenge their limits.
Creating an impact career, from a "worker" to a "change-maker."
Flow believes that a stable job brings regular income and creates a change in life, making staff fulfillment or helping others. We dedicate to helping people with disabilities overcome difficulties in the workplace, which makes them focus on their career development and innovate their lives by themselves, such as barrier-free design, staff room with decompression beds, assistive devices and technologies, and personal care attendant systems. Furthermore, Flow also believes that the pursuit of professional "career development" and the search for the "meaning" of the job can be satisfied simultaneously. With a competitive salary structure and coaching management, Flow encourages all staff to discover their impact career while accumulating working experiences and abilities. Flow expects all of its workers to leverage their professions to challenge complex social issues and make the world a better place.
若水國際股份有限公司
若水國際是一家兼顧商業獲利和公益理念的社會企業，2007 年由「趨勢科技」創辦人張明正創辦，致力在科技產業為身障就業開創永續的商業模式。若水在2013年成立全球第一家社企型的BIM(3D建築資訊建模)整合服務事業部，培訓出得了門的身障者成為BIM工程師。2018年底創立AI數據服務事業部，培育出不了門的身障者成為居家AI數據標註師，並在2019年於日本東京成立子公司「日本FLOW株式會社」，開始複製成功模式至海外。
以「願景」驅動工作核心價值，創造企業、員工、客戶三贏局面
若水致力培力身障者成為人力資產，並在商業運轉的同時解決社會問題。這份理念透過組織設計貫穿到每位員工心中，同時透過商業合作與客戶共享願景。具有使命感的工作內容除了驅動員工更勇於挑戰並發揮潛能，透過穩定工作及全新職種的建立也讓身障者看見自我職涯的更多可能。若水打破傳統職場壁壘，建構身障與非身障者的共榮職場，除了符合聯合國SDGs第8條《合適的工作與經濟成長》更落實職場的多元平權。建立職場「心理安全感」，促進多元團隊共榮成長
若水員工來自科技、商管、社心、職能治療等不同專業領域，人才的招募更橫跨AI及營建產業，身障員工更涵蓋了80%的障別。若水透過組織設計，例如，每月定期由諮商師引導的心理學短講、了解障別的工作坊、日常會議的check in-out文化，讓員工在認識自己之餘，也能培養同理心，讓彼此從生活到專業相互理解。職場「心理安全感」的建立讓大家相信自己的意見能被採納，不會因恐懼而不敢發問而將問題帶出會議室，扁平的組織、去垂直化的水平溝通，打破部門穀倉，激發團隊的潛能及整體表現。創造影響力職涯，讓同仁從「工作者」到「改變者」
若水相信一份穩定的工作不只帶來收入更會造就生命的改變，這個改變可能成就自己，也可能是幫助它人。若水協助身障者克服職場上的困難，打造無障礙辦公空間、休息室設有減壓床、運用科技輔具並配置職場生活協助員，讓他們專注在工作上的發展，進而翻轉自己的人生；同時，若水也相信追求專業的「職涯發展」與尋覓工作上的「意義」不是二分法，透過薪資調查提供具競爭性的報酬，並採用教練式的管理方法，協助所有同仁突破工作上的挑戰，在累積自己工作能力的同時，也開啟自己的影響力職涯，運用專業能力去挑戰複雜的社會議題，為世界帶來更多美好的改變。
