Simprints & Lunio both confirm successful 4 day week trials!

Welcome to this week's highlights, exploring how progressive teams are being intentional about Culture & People Experience ??

?? Maria Campbell shared "eleven big, generalisable lessons I’ve learned from 11 years in startups:

?? Hiring is the most highly leveraged use of your time.

??? Revisit how you communicate. Frequently.

?? Every exec should have a coach and a therapist.

?? Sometimes firing someone is the kindest thing you can do.

??♀? You are trying to do too much.

?? Office moves are zero fun.

?? You are responsible for yourself.

??? Take your vacation.

??♀? Someone should” = volunteering yourself.

?? It’s ok to not know the answer.

??♀? My parents will never stop asking me when I’m going to get a real job."

Read the stories on lowercaseopinions.com .

?? Tara Clarkson shared the 4-day workweek pilot program at Simprints has been a huge success. "A 10% increase in employees feeling they can balance home and work-life. A 10% increase in our Simployees feeling they are more productive. We also decreased our turnover, decreased our time to hire and increased our engagement score." View on LinkedIn .

?? And another!!! Beth Lang has confirmed that Lunio ' 4 day work week trial was a success and is now permanent! Beth gave a quick glimpse into the approach: Before starting the trial asking every department Head what they would deem a success from the trial? What does productivity mean in this department? How do we measure the value this department delivers and their effectiveness? Then measuring to ensure these were at least maintained on those metrics, together with engagement/happiness metrics. Beth will be sharing more in the future. View on LinkedIn .

?? Joel Gascoigne shared Buffer 's Open Salary System: how they approach salaries, resolve the issues they identified over time, and set themselves up for another decade of salary transparency. "There are three parts to Buffer’s new salary system, and we intentionally designed the elements of this system to live independently of one another. Market data: Market data of salaries in tech for our company size, which we derive our salaries from. Buffer benchmarks: A grid of the salaries for every role and level we have in the company. The benchmarks are guided by market data rather than beholden to it. Buffer salaries: The salaries for everyone in the team and the calculations to arrive at each salary." It's an incredible read. See the detail on Buffer.com .

?? Vaso Parisinou shared three Ravio compensation benchmarks for Chief People Officers at companies who have raised a Series A or Series B. View on LinkedIn .

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?? Adriana Pislaru Toma shared that FundApps ' mean gender pay gap is down from an 2.9% a few years ago to 0.6% this past year. "Intentional hiring practices, support for development and progression, and consistently auditing our reward approach have led to this fantastic result". View on LinkedIn .

?? Dani Unsworth shared a video of the incident.io Talent team talking through the details of their 4 stage interview process: Recruiter Screen - 30 mins, Hiring Manager Screen - 1 hour, Live Skills Challenge/Take Home Task/Skills Interview - 1-2 hours. Final Interview - 2 hours. Watch the video on LinkedIn including superstar Megan Batterbury .

?? Charlie Franklin shared that Compa have received Series A funding, to accelerate their mission to make compensation fair and competitive for everyone. View on LinkedIn .

?? Mental health in the workplace has received a lot of attention recently. But what do we need to do to help support employee mental health? What guidance is available? Nicola Hemmings is a Doctoral student at the University of Birkbeck London researching workplace mental health guidance, specifically in small businesses. She is recruiting an expert panel?of small business employees, managers, and HR and mental health professionals to update guidance specifically for small-sized businesses. You can find out more about the research and how to take part on LinkedIn here .

?? Elle Chappell has shared CareScribe 's Ultimate Guide to Neurodiversity in the Workplace. " ? Detailed explanations of neurodiversity ? Recommendations, for organisations of any size, to better leverage the skills of neurodivergent people ? Practical advice to help your organisation break down barriers". View on LinkedIn .

?? Nadia Vatalidis (she/her/hers) shared Camunda 's new hire onboarding includes "CEO 101" - an AMA (ask me anything) style sync meeting with CEO Jakob Freund . View on LinkedIn .

?? Alexandra (Alex) Gold shared GoCardless 's Women in Leadership Programme: Propel. A first-of-a-kind programme focused on supporting women to not only progress into leadership roles but enabling a smooth transition by building the right capabilities ahead of time. View on LinkedIn .

?? Emily Sivey shared this month's BipTalk (a monthly meeting at Bippit? with internal or external speakers, created by Tash Bristowe ) was Understanding Autism, hosted by Carla Ruiz Martínez ??? . View on LinkedIn .

?? Delia Gibson (she/her) shared about Wise 's Mission Day: twice a year the teams come together and engage in big ideas and thorny questions. Reflecting on the highs, the lows and track progress towards the Mission. "For the first time ever we embarked on a 24-hour marathon, this took us on a global adventure using a “follow the sun” format for our regional all-hands event. We kicked off in Singapore ???? passing through to Tallinn ???? and wrapping up in Austin ????". View on LinkedIn .

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