The first JobBox to leave the workshop. A single rugged unit. ten branded headsets, cut foam, integrated charging, a co-branded lid. staged and ready to hand over to the People Arches programme.
Plate 01 · Open unit, staged
McDonald's UK reach hundreds of thousands of applicants a year. The gap between a job advert and the reality of the shift is where interest is lost, expectations misalign, and early leavers are made.
The remit for JobBox was simple: give the People Arches team a portable, self-contained way to put a candidate. or a school group, a jobcentre visitor, a partner. inside a real restaurant. No slideshow. No script. No hire fee for a venue.
One case. Ten headsets. Ready in ninety seconds.
Everything McDonald's need lives inside one case. It's theirs to own, badge, ship, and reload with new films as the estate evolves.
Impact-resistant shell with recessed handles, twin latches, and a co-branded lid plate. Sized to hand-carry or trolley.
Twin-density foam, laser-cut to hold each headset in place through transit. Slots labelled MD1 through MD10.
USB pass-through routed through the foam so the case charges as one, from a single power drop.
Loaded with the McDonald's restaurant experience. Swappable as new departments and stories are captured across the estate.
Plate 02 · Wide
Plate 03 · Top-down
Plate 04 · Co-brand“Candidates walk away understanding the job before they apply.”Placeholder · People Arches team, McDonald's UK Pending sign-off
A JobBox is opened on floors, in kitchens, in schools, in reception areas. It has to look serious the moment the lid lifts. Every seam, every label, every port earns its place.
Open, hand out, watch. Handled by any team member. No specialist operator required.
Case, foam, charging and lid finished. Ten headsets loaded, labelled and paired to the McDonald's film.
Formal handover of the box, quick-start card, and content roadmap. First deployment scheduled for a live restaurant setting.
The box travels with the People Arches team. schools, jobcentres, community events. as a walk-up experience.
Additional stories captured across the estate. kitchen, drive-thru, management pathway. loaded onto the same fleet.
Regional rollout with further JobBoxes per area team, sharing a common film library.
The McDonald's film is built like a short. Six minutes. First-person. No voiceover pushing a message. The candidate stands where a crew member stands, watches what they'd watch, and hears what they'd hear.
Same brief. put candidates in front of the job. Compared honestly, side by side.
Case. Impact-resistant polymer shell, twin recessed latches, side-mounted carrying handle, four caster wheels on the larger variants. Co-branded lid plate with People Arches × JobBox artwork.
Interior. Twin-density laser-cut foam. Ten headset bays, each labelled MD1–MD10. Recessed cable channels for USB-C charging pass-through. Spare bay for controllers and a cleaning kit.
Headsets. Ten standalone all-in-one units. Pre-paired, pre-loaded, pre-locked to the McDonald's film. Kiosk mode. no menu, no login, no app installation on site.
Power. Single mains drop charges the full fleet through the case. Ready for the next session in the time it takes to run a debrief.
Content. The McDonald's shift film pre-loaded on delivery. Updates delivered on a scheduled refresh, or on request when new stories are captured.
Nothing here is a promise. These are the honest signals the People Arches team can watch for as the box goes into the field. Baselines are being agreed before first deployment.
Are candidates asking better questions on the other side of the headset? Fewer “what's the job”, more “when can I start”.
How many candidates opt out. cleanly and early. after seeing the reality. Fewer bad-fit hires further down the line.
Groups and locations the team can now cover that a full recruitment day never would. schools, jobcentres, community events.
The signal that matters most. Candidates who saw the shift before day one, staying past week twelve.
Case No. 001 was built end-to-end by the JobBox team in partnership with People Arches, working directly with the McDonald's UK People function. Every piece. from the film shoot to the foam cut. is produced in-house.