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Cargill Kitchen Solutions: Innovative Job Design

Cargill Kitchen Solutions manufactures and distributes more than 160 different types of egg-based food products to more than 1,200 U.S. food-service operations such as quick-service restaurants, schools, hospitals, convenience stores, and food processors. Although production efficiency requires a product layout design in which each production department is organized into specific work or task areas, Cargill Kitchen Solutions has several innovative strategies to design its work systems to also provide a highly satisfying work environment for its employees. The company uses a rotation system whereby workers rotate to another workstation every 20 minutes. This minimizes stress injuries, fights boredom, reinforces the concept of “internal customers,” and provides a way of improving and reinforcing learning. Cargill Kitchen Solutions has led its industry with this workplace design approach since 1990, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards were developed that mirror this rotation system.

What do you think of Cargill Kitchen Solutions' 20-minute job rotation approach? Would you want to work in an environment with a 20-minute rotation or one in which you performed the same tasks all day? Why?