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Wow, do they pay for all their employees air fare + hotel to come in for a week?
by joshmlewis 14y ago
Wow, do they pay for all their employees air fare + hotel to come in for a week?
- tptacek 14y agoWhy would that be surprising? It's a pretty normal thing for companies to do.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoWhile I don't think its surprising, its quite a stretch to say this is "a pretty normal thing for companies to do".
- tptacek 14y agoWe do it at my company, which is comparably sized. The location rotates between our offices. The company I was at before this one flew everyone out to a ski resort. Every year. Not even to a central office! The company before that was based in Calgary and hired most of its team from the US, all of whom spent multiple weeks in Canada every year on the company's dime. No, I think this is normal. I think a lot of things sound expensive, but the reality of operating a tech company is that nothing is as expensive as salaries, even occasional ski trips.
- obviouslygreen 14y agoHaving been your experience does not make it "normal." Clearly there are companies that do it, but there are certainly far more that can't, won't, or otherwise don't.
- tptacek 14y agoIf you think company retreats, offsites, or all-hands meetings are abnormal for tech companies, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you're not a tech company operator.
- pc86 14y agoIt's really not. If a company has a remote employee and wants that employee to come to the home office for a day/week/month, it's ridiculous for anyone to think for even a moment that the company wouldn't pay for everything.
- beachstartup 14y agoIf this is what your experience has been, you've been ripped off. This is not industry standard except in the case of rogue consultants getting paid a very high hourly rate.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoI'm not implying that companies I've worked for have made me pay for trips or anything like that. I'm just saying that to act like companies sponsoring employee getaways is not a "normal thing", its a pretty cool, rare thing. Unless of course we are only talking about venture backed tech startups, and then yes, this approaches normalcy.
- anywherenotes 14y agoIt doesn't sound far fetched if company tells you to fly across the world, that they would pay for it. However would they also pay for your family to come (if you got wife/kids)? Seems like a pretty bad requirement if there's an ocean between your immediate family - wouldn't feel right to me.