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Feb. 2, 2024, 3:42 a.m. |
Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net
Automattic (the company behind WordPress) have a benefit that's provided to all 1,900+ of their employees: a paid three month sabbatical every five years.
CEO Matt Mullenweg is taking advantage of this for the first time, and here shares an Ignite talk in which he talks about the way the benefit encourages the company to plan for 5% of the company to be unavailable at any one time, helping avoid any single employee becoming a bottleneck.
Via @photomatt
automattic benefit ceo employees every five ignite shares talk talks the company wordpress
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