Can you tell us some of the coolest things about your office? The new 65,000 m2 Campus at the end of Oosterdokseiland and just to the east of Central Station, is now home to all of Booking.com’s more than 6,500 employees in Amsterdam and serves as the company’s official international headquarters. The state-of-the-art SMART building … Read full-story
Can you tell us a bit about the healthcare packages you offer employees? Golden Hippo offers 100% employer-paid health benefits. The company pays 100% of the employee’s premium(s) and 75% of the dependents’ premium(s) for medical, dental, and vision. This is almost unheard of nowadays and we really pride ourselves on being able to offer … Read full-story
Certainly, when the first large companies began, there was little thought that any business might actively work to give back to society in general. But we’ve come to expect more from our corporate entities over the last 25 years, and many have responded by kicking off internal programs dedicated to just that – giving back. … Read full-story
With a new world of working out there full of quiet quitters, Great Resigners, and remote-or-nothing hardliners, professional development is one focus that is sure to make a job attractive in the long term to those with what Joni Mitchell called the urge for going. The grass may be greener at a different job, but … Read full-story
As the ground we walk on in the world of working continues hurtling through paradigm shifts en route to wherever it’s going, and despite our attempts to rename it or spin it out of existence, here’s to a group of companies that understand how mentorship passes on the essential human knowledge that hardwires the future … Read full-story
When you think about issues that represent ever-shifting challenges, where instead of definitive solutions we need to simply commit constant care and attention (like a chronic medical problem,) you need to think about the issue of equality first. That may seem a harsh and hopeless image to open with, but when the scales of justice … Read full-story
It should be no secret that many military veterans are dream employees, already experts in how to be an effective moving part of a complex team, and how to take pride in their work. Companies across the world, like these, have long since learned the value of hiring veterans. We asked for more specifics on … Read full-story
How do companies support their global cultures? How, in fact, do work cultures translate across such great distances as they need to for companies that have employees spread around the globe? Culture in remote working is still a work-in-progress across the world. Here’s now six strong companies have managed to keep their inherent culture relevant … Read full-story
Of course, given a choice, many people are more than happy to work from home. If this includes never setting foot in an office, they’re fine with that. If it means never meeting their co-workers in the flesh, they’ll survive. At least at first blush, the ability for many of us to work wherever we … Read full-story
Making a commitment to real sustainability makes every corporation a better public citizen. It could be said that our inability as a species to take care of the only planetary home as well as we should have (at least up to this point) is our greatest failing. Here’s how these companies are doing their part … Read full-story
There will always be offices. Nowhere else can creative and productive minds really cook with gas, sparking off each other to catapult forward to the next great idea. With the move to remote, many office plans have changed to center around new ideas, often with the idea of heightening the value of that in-person teamwork … Read full-story
The list of urgent things that we are in process of fixing in this world in 2022 is long and daunting, and atop them all is the existential crisis we all face every second off the day – climate change. Mother Earth is on the verge of finally recoiling in shock at our treatment of … Read full-story
Why are you experiencing growth? Our EQRx team is working hard towards our bold mission of #RemakingMedicine. We are committed to developing and delivering high-quality, patent-protected medicines more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. In order to be successful, we’re actively building a strong team to support our efforts – we are looking to double … Read full-story
What are some of the ways that your company empowers your employees to give back? Each quarter, through our Team Member Directed Giving program, we contribute to community-based nonprofit organizations that align with our missions and values. Team Members have the opportunity to invite local nonprofit organizations that they’re passionate about to apply to receive … Read full-story
As our country and our world continues to strive to make up for the injustices of the past and come closer to realizing a truly fair society for people of all races, here’s how a group of companies are celebrating this year’s Black History Month, which runs for all of February. How will you be … Read full-story
Regardless of what becomes of this pandemic-era retreat to remote work for many of us, it seems fairly certain that hybrid work models – where some hold down an office while others work from home or elsewhere – are here to stay. The benefits are too great for all parties, with the ability to hire … Read full-story
Employee growth is key for retention, as it’s also key for employee happiness: nobody likes to feel like there’s moss growing on them, hence all the rolling stones we’ve seen leaving their jobs during the Great Resignation. Clearly, stagnation is the enemy of retention. Here are several companies that understand how they need to help … Read full-story
Can you tell us some of the ways your company supports LGBTQ employees? Farmers Insurance® is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, including for LGBTQ colleagues. Some of the ways we support employees include: Offering inclusive benefits: Farmers has a strong commitment to our working families. We are proud to provide 10 … Read full-story
Hiring managers know that military veterans are team-oriented, often have leadership experience, and are used to learning new work disciplines. Here are four companies that tell us more about why hiring veterans is a no-brainer. … Read full-story
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are voluntary, employee-led groups whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with the organizations they serve. In an era when diversity and inclusion are of the utmost importance, ERGs are key to the progressive workplaces we are all looking towards. Here are several companies that have gotten creative, launching … Read full-story
The Great Resignation is liberating tons of people from jobs they feel weren’t ideal on a daily basis as 2021 careens towards a conclusion (after the oncoming heap of holidays), and among these new “searcher” candidates – who want to make the right decisions about where they build their work nest – are some very fine … Read full-story
Coverage of 17 companies and their current DE&I efforts. … Read full-story
THE JUNGLE GYM Trisha Price is Chief Product Officer for nCino, the worldwide leader in cloud banking that empowers financial institutions with scalable technology to help them achieve revenue growth, greater efficiency, cost savings, and regulatory compliance. In the summer of 2020, nCino successfully IPO’d in the middle of one of the most uncertain moments in recent … Read full-story
Today, March 8th is recognized as International Women’s Day. IWD 2021 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality. … Read full-story
Working mothers needed more thoughtful and robust support long before the COVID epidemic overtook and perhaps forever altered the way we balance work and life – now they desperately need more help: from their partners, from their societies, and from the companies they work for. It’s still too soon to tell whether things have fundamentally … Read full-story
Work-life balance hasn’t always been a given over the history of humans working for their livelihoods, or even the last century. But enormous strides have been made over the last twenty years in making sure that such an alarmingly obvious truth – that an employee needs to be given consideration and space for tending to their … Read full-story
November 11th is Veterans Day. The federal holiday was initially dedicated – along with Armistice Day and Remembrance Day – to make the end of World War 1. The Great War, as we came to call that conflict, is for many alive today not much more than the distant sound of thunder. But the reasons for Veteran’s … Read full-story
