From 85beba581aec3abe3ad8f4101c266c074b8b2976 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Newell Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:33:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add onboarding budget rules --- contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md index 499a180db625..cd128eeed455 100644 --- a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md +++ b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md @@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ In these cases, the process is: - Issue them a Brex card to their work email with a sufficiently high temporary balance to cover travel costs - Have the new team member book travel as usual +While there is no fixed budget for onboardings they should be relatively less expensive than a small team offsite. Some considerations: + + - Avoid intercontinental or choose a location that limits it to the minimum number of people + - You should not need to plan a social activity + - Limit attendees to team members + - See if there are any other onboardings at the same time + +Aim to keep things sensible and cheap. As always, use your best judgement when [spending money](/handbook/people/spending-money) + > You should by default avoid combining in-person onboarding with [small team offsites](/handbook/company/offsites#small-team-offsites) as they serve different purposes. The focus of onboarding is generally on making the new team member successful, but offsites feature things like hackathons and 360 feedback which aren't usually helpful for this and detract from useful onboarding time. However, it may occasionally make sense to combine the two - just use your judgement. ### Engineering From ede6f3d8921cbe43c0e831ad2f82a19deee9933d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Newell Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:51:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Apply suggestions from code review --- contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md index cd128eeed455..a9d7943766e4 100644 --- a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md +++ b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ In these cases, the process is: - Issue them a Brex card to their work email with a sufficiently high temporary balance to cover travel costs - Have the new team member book travel as usual -While there is no fixed budget for onboardings they should be relatively less expensive than a small team offsite. Some considerations: +While there is no fixed budget for onboardings they should be relatively less expensive than a small team offsite. Some considerations to reduce the cost: - - Avoid intercontinental or choose a location that limits it to the minimum number of people + - Avoid intercontinental travel or choose a location that limits it to the minimum number of people possible - You should not need to plan a social activity - Limit attendees to team members - - See if there are any other onboardings at the same time + - See if there are any other onboardings at the same time you could pair up with Aim to keep things sensible and cheap. As always, use your best judgement when [spending money](/handbook/people/spending-money) From 16e9c888bd12ea58a2d907045669e9f5a5f1e177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Newell Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 09:25:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Charles Cook --- contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md index a9d7943766e4..2c656e320944 100644 --- a/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md +++ b/contents/handbook/people/onboarding.md @@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ While there is no fixed budget for onboardings they should be relatively less ex - Avoid intercontinental travel or choose a location that limits it to the minimum number of people possible - You should not need to plan a social activity - - Limit attendees to team members + - Limit attendees to members of your Small Team - See if there are any other onboardings at the same time you could pair up with -Aim to keep things sensible and cheap. As always, use your best judgement when [spending money](/handbook/people/spending-money) +Aim to keep things sensible and cheap. As always, use your best judgement when [spending money](/handbook/people/spending-money). Request a budget in Brex for any onboardings you are doing. > You should by default avoid combining in-person onboarding with [small team offsites](/handbook/company/offsites#small-team-offsites) as they serve different purposes. The focus of onboarding is generally on making the new team member successful, but offsites feature things like hackathons and 360 feedback which aren't usually helpful for this and detract from useful onboarding time. However, it may occasionally make sense to combine the two - just use your judgement.