Lego Campus

Office/factory in Billund, Jutland, Denmark. Part of Billund.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
The Year of Living Danishly	Helen Russell	subject	The author visits her husband’s workplace for lunch: circular sofas shaped like the Lego brick, meeting rooms named after toys, a canteen serving rye bread and pork, and a factory tour where minifigures are made.

The Year of Living Danishly — Helen Russell (2015)

Source: Readwise highlight

There’s a laid-back Silicon-Valley-meets-Google-HQ vibe from the moment I step inside the glass-fronted head office in Billund’s sleepy residential centre.

• Role: subject
• In the book: The author visits her husband’s workplace for lunch: circular sofas shaped like the Lego brick, meeting rooms named after toys, a canteen serving rye bread and pork, and a factory tour where minifigures are made. It is where she learns about Jante’s Law, office singing and drumming, and ‘arbejdsglæde’.
• Why it matters: It is the main source of the February chapter’s argument about Danish work-life balance and the reason the family is in Denmark at all.