I think itās valuable to have social experiments. However, I do think the social experiment of living and working with your employees while traveling has now been experimented with and the results are āitās very riskyā. Iāve been doing it with Emerson and Drew for years now and itās been fine, but I think we have a really good dynamic and itās hard to replicate.
As for HR professionals, we had only 3 full-time people at the time, so that would have been too early/āsmall for us to have one.
For safeguarding policies, Chloe was working on creating those. But yeah, she was our first full-time employee where we could even have policies, so it was understandable not to have them yet.
For regular working hours, we did. Chloe only ever worked once on a weekend and never again (she said she didnāt like it, and we set up a policy to never do it again).
For offices in a normal city, I donāt think that should matter much. Rethink Priorities is fully remote last I checked and in all sorts of cities and itās fine.
As for work/ālife boundaries, I think the biggest thing was to no live with employees, which we are no longer doing. Itās worked in the past for me but I think itās just too risky.
I think itās valuable to have social experiments. However, I do think the social experiment of living and working with your employees while traveling has now been experimented with and the results are āitās very riskyā. Iāve been doing it with Emerson and Drew for years now and itās been fine, but I think we have a really good dynamic and itās hard to replicate.
As for HR professionals, we had only 3 full-time people at the time, so that would have been too early/āsmall for us to have one.
For safeguarding policies, Chloe was working on creating those. But yeah, she was our first full-time employee where we could even have policies, so it was understandable not to have them yet.
For regular working hours, we did. Chloe only ever worked once on a weekend and never again (she said she didnāt like it, and we set up a policy to never do it again).
For offices in a normal city, I donāt think that should matter much. Rethink Priorities is fully remote last I checked and in all sorts of cities and itās fine.
As for work/ālife boundaries, I think the biggest thing was to no live with employees, which we are no longer doing. Itās worked in the past for me but I think itās just too risky.
Was this practice clearly delineated as an experiment to the participants?