Tag Archives: Teammates

I Took 7 Weeks Off Work After Hiring 3 New Teammates, Right here’s Why It Labored Out

In July and August of this year, I had the incredible experience of taking seven weeks off of work — fully paid. I benefited from our generous sabbatical policy (more on that below) to take a break from work. It had been a particularly busy year, and I had two new teammates join in February […]

Is It Higher To Onboard Teammates Collectively Or Stagger Onboarding?

We’ve done a lot of hiring over the years and one of the questions we’ve asked ourselves has been: is better to have new Buffer teammates who will be on the same team start at the same time or to stagger their start dates ? We’re a relatively small team and since we’ve been actively […]

We Included Every Member of This Group of their New Teammate’s Onboarding, Right here’s Why

In 2021, we geared up for our first hiring push in the Customer Advocacy team (our customer support team) for quite a while. Due to strategy and personnel changes, we would need to hire five new Advocates throughout the year, which is more than we’d hired in any year since 2016. Between hiring and other […]