[Mrluvaluva]

Daring and controversial documentary The Naked Office returns for a brand new six part series, exclusive to Virgin1, following the success of last year’s one off summer special.

Sparking debate and reams of column inches, even being discussed on NBC’s infamous Today Show and ABC News in the US, The Naked Office continues to attempt to help businesses get back on track by stripping away their problems using a revolutionary approach – going to work stark naked.

With the recession still in full swing and companies fighting to stay afloat, the series investigates whether working naked will help employees to break down relationship boundaries by increasing positivity and productivity and explore whether flashing the flesh is the ultimate office equalizer.

Rather than it being rude to go nude, we follow six courageous British businesses across the UK; amongst them an organic fruit and vegetable delivery company, a fledgling online beauty booking business and a construction recruitment agency, as they brave going to work in the buff to try and become a better, happier workforce.

Each company has its own issues which need to be tackled. For example, staff tensions in the offices of ‘The Farmshed’ - a small, family run business that provides customers with organic food straight to their door - mean the expansion plans are on hold. Also employees of recruitment agency ‘Aspire’ are working below an unfocused leader and not performing or hitting their targets. Ongoing mother /daughter rivalry at hair and beauty booking specialists ‘I Need An Appointment’ INAA.com has caused the daughter to sack her mum three times since the company opened in February last year. But the mother refuses to be fired as she owns half the business and keeps turning up for work!

Leading behaviour change specialist and leadership guru Seven Suphi is on hand to help and has worked with people from some of the biggest global companies including HSBC, IBM and LexisNexis to improve their performance. She believes that participating in The Naked Office social experiment will hopefully help employees with their confidence, trust and authenticity.

Seven Suphi says, ‘For most people in the UK going to work in the nude is a very daunting prospect and I believe this extreme process will help them push their boundaries and become a close team that trust each other enough to get naked together.’

Every episode is filmed over a week and takes the colleagues on both a personal and professional journey as they build up to the day the entire office has been dreading. No clothes, no shame and nowhere to hide as they work completely nude on ‘Naked Friday’. But will it improve relationships and create a happier, more successful business? It will certainly mean they never look at their colleagues in quite the same way again!

Throughout the week we follow Seven as she finds the core areas to work on to substantially improve themselves, the business and helps the employees prepare for the ultimate dress down Friday and rebuild their broken spirit by undertaking ‘naked tasks’ ranging from making clay moulds of their body parts to spandex wrestling. We also meet some interesting characters along the way including Ike, who is incapable of being on time and Eileen, administration assistant by day…female wrestler called ‘Roxy’ by night!

On now on +1.

[ILoveTRW]

sounds hot, shame i dont have virgin1

[arista]

Its on Virgin+1