{"id":1962,"date":"2009-07-01T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2009-07-01T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T21:55:31","slug":"obsess-about-your-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/obsess-about-your-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsess about your employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really obsess about your employees. \u00a0Look after them.<\/p>\n<p>No seriously, the good guys aren&#8217;t hanging about, especially if you don&#8217;t look after them.<\/p>\n<p>If I was hiring, things I&#8217;d offer are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decent Health &amp; Life Insurance<\/li>\n<li>Huge holidays, if you want to take 3 months off no pay, let&#8217;s figure out how to do that.<\/li>\n<li>Extra benefits for family guys<\/li>\n<li>Performance bonuses based on real business value that employees contribute<\/li>\n<li>Own time to build personal projects, whether related to business or not (including building personal brand, blogging, twitter)<\/li>\n<li>Flexible hours. \u00a0What are rigid schedules for? Deliver on time, don&#8217;t care whether you do 1 hour or 2 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Flexible location, if you can do the work from Cambodia whilst you do some travel, let&#8217;s make that happen<\/li>\n<li>Want to build a startup out of work hours? All good, maybe we can sort you out with some equity or loans to give you a helping hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh and of course a reasonable wage.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this sounds like a pipe dream or maybe providing a dream job scenario will attract dream employees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really obsess about your employees. \u00a0Look after them. No seriously, the good guys aren&#8217;t hanging about, especially if you don&#8217;t look after them. If I was hiring, things I&#8217;d offer are: Decent Health &amp; Life Insurance Huge holidays, if you want to take 3 months off no pay, let&#8217;s figure out how to do that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[299,429,861,1244],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}