While running operations at Sandhills Development, one responsibility of mine was shipping things to our distributed team. Most of those things ended up being branded gear of one kind of another, or sometimes special gifts. For example, new hires generally received a “care package” which contained things like t-shirts, hats, and other items with our […]
At a recent job, I was solely responsible for Total Rewards which included designing and maintaining all employee perks. As a self-proclaimed people-first organization, we poured a lot into the employee experience. I helped institute a wide array of perks and benefits, many of which were typical such as a 401k plan and free access […]
In 2019, I was handed responsibility for everything pertaining to employee compensation at the small distributed software company I was working for at the time. Prior to that point, compensation was managed solely by the company’s founder in a spreadsheet and there was no formal system governing pay. Everyone’s pay was negotiated between individual employees […]
In the summer of 2019, when I took on the role of Director of Operations at Sandhills Development, the company had no framework for employee growth and no clear strategy for employee compensation. Changing that became a short term priority of mine, in spite of the fact that I’d never previously created anything of the […]
I run operations at a software company called Sandhills Development and one of my responsibilities is planning our occasional team retreats. I wrote about some of them before including our 2017 All Hands and our 2019 All Hands. For the past few years our fully distributed team has been getting together in-person at least once […]
Last month the entire Sandhills Development team gathered together in Keystone, Colorado for our annual team meetup. This was not the first team meetup for the company but was different than anything in the past for a few reasons: The meetup was for five whole days. It was not tacked onto a conference. All employees […]
