A family-run national fruit and veg supplier based in Hertfordshire, let their staff decide who the new boss should be. The employees need to find a new distribution manager and secretly scrutinise the hopeful candidates in a series of challenges set by employees right across the board.
In this episode, the boss of a Preston-based chocolate manufacturer gives his entire workforce the power to decide who will become its new business development manager. The three candidates competing for the job think its him they need to impress. Instead, everyone in the company will secretly assess them in a series of workplace tasks designed to test the applicants in every corner of the company. But as this unique week-long recruitment experiment continues, an upstairs/downstairs split emerges between the sales team and two of the longest-serving workers on the factory floor. Will they finally agree on the candidate they believe can secure the company's future?
In this episode the boss at a Scottish craft brewer hands over the business of recruitment to his entire company.