I’ve had one job where the co-owners said this, and actually meant it. The company was run like a startup as far as employee benefits went, despite them being in business since the 80s.
The whole company was remote (except for the executive assistant who they kept office space for because she didn’t want to work from home).
We were salaried exempt, but they wouldn’t let us work overtime, we could take off for appointments and such with no questions asked, and you could take vacation without using vacation days if you just showed up for meetings.
We had quarterly meetups where they fed us catered meals with an open bar at high end hotels, and even once took us to a MLB game in an executive suite.
And the best part is that basically everyone who wasn’t in IT had decades of experience in HR, including the owners, so they knew that investing heavily in making us happy would be in the best interest of the company.
I still hate Musk for fucking up their contract to the point where they had to shut down, even though we increased government efficiency in our specialty by 900%.
I’ve had one job where the co-owners said this, and actually meant it. The company was run like a startup as far as employee benefits went, despite them being in business since the 80s.
The whole company was remote (except for the executive assistant who they kept office space for because she didn’t want to work from home).
We were salaried exempt, but they wouldn’t let us work overtime, we could take off for appointments and such with no questions asked, and you could take vacation without using vacation days if you just showed up for meetings.
We had quarterly meetups where they fed us catered meals with an open bar at high end hotels, and even once took us to a MLB game in an executive suite.
And the best part is that basically everyone who wasn’t in IT had decades of experience in HR, including the owners, so they knew that investing heavily in making us happy would be in the best interest of the company.
I still hate Musk for fucking up their contract to the point where they had to shut down, even though we increased government efficiency in our specialty by 900%.