Open at Atlassian means enabling fluid collaboration across teams through open and shared work. A study found that open teams are 60% more likely to be high-achieving and report stronger well-being. The keys to open team success are shared context, direct feedback, and access to information. While open work can be difficult, high performing teams are more likely to have these open characteristics than low performing teams.

1. What Open Means at Atlassian
JAY SIMONS

2. G D P RT E A MW O R KI D E AD O N EM A K EF A I LO P E N

3. THE PACE OF
Change

4. 75
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5. The world is moving too
quickly to allow anything less than
OPEN & FLUID
collaboration across people &
teams

11. MORE
CLOSED
MORE
OPEN

12. MORE
CLOSED

13. MORE
OPEN

14. SHARED
CONTEXT
DIRECT
FEEDBACK
ACCESS TO
INFORMATION
OPEN
WORK
OPEN
WORK

15. OPEN WORK
Study

16. 1100
people surveyed,
in the US
Engineering
IT
Marketing
Legal
HR
Finance
Design

17. 60%
More likely to be high-achieving
OPEN TEAMS

18. 60%
More likely to be high-achieving
More likely to report strong emotional well-being
80%
OPEN TEAMS

19. Context
SHARED

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21. Low performing teams
25%
High achieving teams
66%Understand
why their
work matters

22. DIRECT
Feedback

23. It’s no fun to
be criticized

24. Feel free to give
honest feedback
Low performing teams
High achieving teams
57%
15%

25. Information
ACCESS TO

28. Have easy access to the
information they need
Low performing teams
High achieving teams
55%
15%

29. IT’S REALLY
HARD
But,
OPEN
TEAM
SUCCESS
Linked to

30. OPEN
IT’S REALLY
HARD
But,
TEAM
SUCCESS
Linked to

31. MORE ABOUT OPEN WORK
atlassian.com/open

32. THANK YOU!