I think it’s 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 “it’s very risky”. I’ve been doing it with Emerson and Drew for years now and it’s been fine, but I think we have a really good dynamic and it’s hard to replicate.
As for HR professionals, we had only 3 full-time people at the time, so that would have been too early/small 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 didn’t like it, and we set up a policy to never do it again).
For offices in a normal city, I don’t think that should matter much. Rethink Priorities is fully remote last I checked and in all sorts of cities and it’s fine.
As for work/life boundaries, I think the biggest thing was to no live with employees, which we are no longer doing. It’s worked in the past for me but I think it’s just too risky.
I think it’s 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 “it’s very risky”. I’ve been doing it with Emerson and Drew for years now and it’s been fine, but I think we have a really good dynamic and it’s hard to replicate.
As for HR professionals, we had only 3 full-time people at the time, so that would have been too early/small 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 didn’t like it, and we set up a policy to never do it again).
For offices in a normal city, I don’t think that should matter much. Rethink Priorities is fully remote last I checked and in all sorts of cities and it’s fine.
As for work/life boundaries, I think the biggest thing was to no live with employees, which we are no longer doing. It’s worked in the past for me but I think it’s just too risky.
Was this practice clearly delineated as an experiment to the participants?