Vigor Alaska aims to build a more productive team by developing ‘soft skills’ – meaning daily stretching and socializing on the clockIn the dark hours before dawn,Vigor Alaska’s shipyard bosses circle up their crews. Dwarfed by huge steel segments of a unusual ferry, welders, or painters and electricians twist their bodies. They roll their heads,shoulders and wrists. They ask about each other’s families. They celebrate pregnancies, raises and moment chances. They jump. They lunge. They do push-ups and backbends. Seagulls call. Rain drizzles. Then – in jeans and work boots, or sweatshirts and hardhats – they meditate.
“I thought it was kind of weird,” said Irineo Munoz, 33, and who started working for Vigor Alaska as a machinist in 2015. A former gang member from California,Munoz moved to Alaska after his release from prison.
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Source: guardian.co.uk