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GitLab Employee Handbook - Gitlab has open sourced their employee handbook

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"Having pets, children, significant others, friends and family visible during video chats is encouraged. If they are human, ask them to wave at your remote team member to say 'Hi'." This is so, so, so, so good. Immensely important in a remote team! Bravo
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Thanks! Today we had a team member with a cat clamping to the top of the back seat of his Ikea chair as he swiveled. It was hilarious. I only have a picture of the cat after the fact
This is stellar. Congrats Gitlab team for making this open sourced. A lot of companies will benefit.
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Thanks Daniel! We hope that many organizations can reuse (part of) our handbook. It has been great having people apply because they like the way we would. And we also look forward to receiving contributions and making the handbook better together.
Thanks for doing this. This is really encouraging to see and I hope other companies can follow suit.
Maker
Thanks Clement. We certainly also hope more companies will open up their processes and go Remote Only
Awesome that's a big step forward, wish to see more companies doing it.
Maker
It happens, here are some examples but most seem not to be updated nor can you see the change process. You can view our changes at
Thank u for sharing, we are also putting a lot effort in our handbook, but currently it's private.
Maker
Cool, I hope you can share it some day, but no pressure.
This is great. We implemented our handbook at ~10 employees (much earlier than most startups) and it has been a huge hit. Frankly, I don't know how anybody can get past 20 employees without one.
Maker
Same for us. We grew from 9 people in March 2015 to over 90 now. It went very smooth and I think the handbook was a big part of it.
Thanks for open-sourcing this. It's been really interesting to read as the founder of a v young company where we still have so much of this sort of stuff to codify.
Maker
You're very welcome. Consider using our stuff as a template and customize it to your needs. The full history should be available so you can also go back in time to when we were smaller. If you do this don't forget to send back some of you improvements to us.
Solid work, very straight forward and seems to embody Gitlab's corporate spirit well. I did some spot checking for a project I'm wrapping up now. Thanks for a great reference.
Maker
Thanks for your comment and tweet, much appreciated.
This is wonderful! Thanks so much for making this available !
This document is incredibly inspiring and a must-read for remote teams.
This is Huuugeee!
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