“Come on, let’s be quick, we don’t waste time in traffic jams, we put the cups in two by two! » The presentations have not yet been made, but we recognize the boss who crowds his employees in front of the coffee machine. It must be said that there is a real crowd in the kitchen, the young team not being used to this high-end device which grinds the grains directly. For two days and one night, they were promised “recharge your batteries in peace”far from “useless uproar” of the city. For now, it’s best not to hang around.
The promise is that of the start-up The Oasis House, which has been offering for a year “a collection of lifestyle homes” – always located in the countryside – for business seminars during the week and meetings with family or friends at the weekend. The founder, Camille Personnat, comes from the luxury hotel industry and places emphasis on comfort,” experience “. Having attended the Lausanne hotel school before a specialized master’s degree at HEC, she integrated the notion of team building while she was at Airbnb ” in full remote » (understand: permanent teleworking) throughout the Covid-19 period.
“I was working at home, I wanted to go out and see people…traces the 31-year-old entrepreneur. I felt that this desire was widespread: we needed to reconnect with our colleagues. » Camille Personnat then observes “the rise of new ways of working”between the desire for flexibility and the need for team spirit. Since then, she has set up her company and raised several million euros from the conservative Catholic billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, creator of the Otium Capital investment fund.
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His motto: “Like the English, unbridle our postures: their “bleisure” combines business and “leisure” [“loisirs”] without complex. » She talks about “new decompartmentalizations”. Thus, at La Prairie, the first house opened by The Oasis House in Egreville (1 hour 15 minutes from Paris, in Seine-et-Marne), in addition to the 11 rooms and 11 private bathrooms, there is also a swimming pool (heated), a padel court, another pétanque court, “tall grass”a barbecue, a table football (a must), board games, but also a huge banquet table, found in Italy, to organize more meetings “strategic”with all the equipment necessary for” efficiency “.
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