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The Power of Company Retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer Retreat
The Power of Company Retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer Retreat
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team, and we just wrapped up our 8th company…
Joel Gascoigne
Mar 5, 2017
40 Lessons From 4 Years of Remote Work
40 Lessons From 4 Years of Remote Work
This month I celebrated my four-year anniversary of joining the Buffer team — or “Bufferversary,” as we fondly call them.
Buffer
Feb 20, 2018
I Turned Slack Off for a Week. Here’s What Happened.
I Turned Slack Off for a Week. Here’s What Happened.
I recently read Jason Fried’s Medium post on the presence prison, which challenges the reader to “break free” of the green dot and set your…
Katie Wilde
Jan 25, 2018
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Should you call your teammates “family”?
Should you call your teammates “family”?
Author’s Note: This is a personal opinion piece and not necessarily the feeling of all teammates at Buffer.
Buffer
Feb 28, 2019
Continuing to Improve on Pay: Our Latest Changes to the Salary Formula and How Much it Costs
Continuing to Improve on Pay: Our Latest Changes to the Salary Formula and How Much it Costs
We live in a world where things are constantly changing, and Buffer is no exception, especially when it comes to how we pay our team!
Buffer
Feb 25, 2019
How Individuals Advance at Buffer, Without Becoming Managers
How Individuals Advance at Buffer, Without Becoming Managers
The concept of a career path at Buffer has changed a lot over the past seven years.
Buffer
Jan 27, 2019
How We Organize Remote Team Meetups at Buffer
How We Organize Remote Team Meetups at Buffer
Experimentation and iteration lie at the heart of a lot of things we do at Buffer. If you’ve been following the Open Blog for some time, or…
Buffer
Jan 7, 2019
How to Measure Your Team’s Satisfaction at Work
How to Measure Your Team’s Satisfaction at Work
Here at Buffer, we believe that what gets measured, gets managed. That’s important because, with effective management and oversight, we…
Buffer
Dec 17, 2018
Empowered Accountability: How to Scale a Team & Its Autonomy
Empowered Accountability: How to Scale a Team & Its Autonomy
Growing pains. Every company gets them, and the pains come in all sorts of ways, from the tactical (tools) to the philosophical (this…
Buffer
Dec 6, 2018
Product Marketing: Continuous Improvements or Big Launch?
Product Marketing: Continuous Improvements or Big Launch?
Among the many existential questions of building and distributing software is the question of product marketing. What even is product…
Buffer
Dec 4, 2018
The Most Common Questions About Working at Buffer
The Most Common Questions About Working at Buffer
When you experiment with work culture as much as we do at Buffer, you tend to receive a lot of questions about it.
Buffer
Nov 26, 2018
From Maker to Manager: How to Take the Leap
From Maker to Manager: How to Take the Leap
Almost two years ago, I fell into becoming a manager.
Buffer
Nov 18, 2018
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