Interesting. I assume you also considered the inverse strategy of hiring non-EAs to work at EA orgs? Let’s say I’m an EA org hiring a personal assistant… if I hire an EA as my personal assistant, that EA no longer has the opportunity to draw a salary from a non-EA organization and funnel that money in to an EA organization via earning to give. (On the other hand, hiring EAs is useful for dealing with principle-agent problems.)
At CEA, we haven’t had much luck hiring non-EAs, though it can work for relatively mechanical or well standardised tasks e.g. book keeping and some assistant work; and we try to do that as much as possible.
Interesting. I assume you also considered the inverse strategy of hiring non-EAs to work at EA orgs? Let’s say I’m an EA org hiring a personal assistant… if I hire an EA as my personal assistant, that EA no longer has the opportunity to draw a salary from a non-EA organization and funnel that money in to an EA organization via earning to give. (On the other hand, hiring EAs is useful for dealing with principle-agent problems.)
At CEA, we haven’t had much luck hiring non-EAs, though it can work for relatively mechanical or well standardised tasks e.g. book keeping and some assistant work; and we try to do that as much as possible.