New Working Models: FREE-LA and Flexible teams

Many public servants sit at desk passing decisions up the chain and feeling antiquated and uncomfortable in the traditional work models.

In this context, we have created 2 different working models, called Free-LA and Flexible team.

• Free-LA: public servants voluntarily fill out a registration form and can be selected to work at the lab, in a project or activity, or specific public challenge, according to their skills and interest. Today, we have more than 350 registered Free-LA from 230 different public organizations.
• Flexible team: public servants selected to work at the lab from 4 to 20 hours per week, but they keep their employment relationship to their original working place. Among our team at LA-BORA! gov, there are 6 people at the flexible team, from 6 different public organizations. 

Both models scale opportunities to public servants, foster learning, networking and meaning at work. They break silos, bypass bureaucracy and improve flexibility at work. 

They are based on cross-functional task teams to solve challenging public problems and shift functional hierarchies to teamcentric and fluid network-based work models.

This initiative has received recognition from the Brazilian National School of Public Administration (Enap) Innovation Award in 2021.