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Have a public track record (company policy, actual actions) of preemptively dealing with the topics that those groups care about (sexual harassment, glass ceili

by dsp1234 10y ago

Have a public track record (company policy, actual actions) of preemptively dealing with the topics that those groups care about (sexual harassment, glass ceiling, transgender friendly accommodations, etc). I don't think that falls under any of the three items from above, unless you feel like taking those actions, and having those people seek your company out is a form of "get lucky".

amyjess 10y ago
So, off the top of my head, largely inspired by the Vox article on how to eliminate the wage gap [0]: - Have strong sexual harassment policies and aggressively enforce them. - Require employees to keep up-to-date documentation on everything they work on so somebody else can jump in and take over their stuff in an absence. - Nobody should ever work more than 8 hours in a day. Even voluntary overtime should be strictly banned (if it's not banned, then people who work overtime voluntarily will look better on performance reviews than people who can only put in 8 hours). - If there's truly an emergency situation where someone has to be called in, those emergencies should be exceedingly rare, should only happen when there is an existential threat to the company, and accompanied by a massive bonus and/or extra vacation days ("hey, I know it's Saturday, but the servers are on fire, and we'll get sued if they're not back up ASAP, so if you come in and fix them now we'll give you the next week off"). If anything actually needs 24/7 attention on the regular, then hire people to work in shifts instead of calling people in on their days off. - Flexible hours. As long as an employee works ~8 hours a day, it doesn't matter what those 8 hours are. They don't even have to be contiguous. If you want to work 11:00-14:00, go home for a few hours, and then come back and work 19:00-22:00, you should be able to do that. - Absences should only count against PTO if you take off at least four hours in a day. If you have to leave two hours early for your kid's doctor's appointment, it won't count against you. (this is actually policy at my employer, and it works very well) - Allow people to work from home whenever they want. Imagine you're a parent, and your kid is stuck at home sick and needs you to stay home and keep an eye on them: you won't have to eat a vacation day to keep an eye on your kid. - Avoid any other hallmarks of brogrammer culture I can't think of right now. Basically you want to create an environment where women, especially mothers, would kill to work at. [0] http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12108126/gender-wage-gap-explained-real http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12108126/gender-wage-gap-explain...

by dsp1234 10y ago

amyjess 10y ago

So, off the top of my head, largely inspired by the Vox article on how to eliminate the wage gap [0]: - Have strong sexual harassment policies and aggressively enforce them. - Require employees to keep up-to-date documentation on everything they work on so somebody else can jump in and take over their stuff in an absence. - Nobody should ever work more than 8 hours in a day. Even voluntary overtime should be strictly banned (if it's not banned, then people who work overtime voluntarily will look better on performance reviews than people who can only put in 8 hours). - If there's truly an emergency situation where someone has to be called in, those emergencies should be exceedingly rare, should only happen when there is an existential threat to the company, and accompanied by a massive bonus and/or extra vacation days ("hey, I know it's Saturday, but the servers are on fire, and we'll get sued if they're not back up ASAP, so if you come in and fix them now we'll give you the next week off"). If anything actually needs 24/7 attention on the regular, then hire people to work in shifts instead of calling people in on their days off. - Flexible hours. As long as an employee works ~8 hours a day, it doesn't matter what those 8 hours are. They don't even have to be contiguous. If you want to work 11:00-14:00, go home for a few hours, and then come back and work 19:00-22:00, you should be able to do that. - Absences should only count against PTO if you take off at least four hours in a day. If you have to leave two hours early for your kid's doctor's appointment, it won't count against you. (this is actually policy at my employer, and it works very well) - Allow people to work from home whenever they want. Imagine you're a parent, and your kid is stuck at home sick and needs you to stay home and keep an eye on them: you won't have to eat a vacation day to keep an eye on your kid. - Avoid any other hallmarks of brogrammer culture I can't think of right now. Basically you want to create an environment where women, especially mothers, would kill to work at. [0] http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12108126/gender-wage-gap-explained-real http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12108126/gender-wage-gap-explain...