Inside LEGO's workplace culture: What keeps the bricks clicking

LEGO has shared some insights into what makes their workplace tick, and it's about as colourful as you'd expect from the company behind those plastic bricks we all know and love. The Danish firm employs around 26,000 people globally, from designers sketching out the next Creator Expert set to the folks making sure your local shop has enough City sets on the shelves.

Their Billund headquarters still feels like the heart of it all, where new themes get dreamed up and prototypes take shape. What comes through is how seriously they take the "learning through play" philosophy - not just for kids, but for their own staff.

Design teams apparently spend proper time playing with builds, testing whether a technique actually works or if kids will get frustrated halfway through bag three. The company culture seems genuinely built around curiosity and experimentation.

Given how many brilliant sets have come out recently - from the modular buildings to those detailed botanical collections - whatever they're doing behind the scenes is clearly working. It's refreshing to see a toy company that hasn't lost sight of why people love building with LEGO in the first place.

When your day job involves making sure an 8-year-old can build a decent spaceship, you're probably doing something right.

Source: www.lego.com.*