Thank you @adventurous-action-89434 for organising this, it was great to connect with new Ops members and see familiar faces!

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<!here> I've just published a DEEP DIVE into "How to run and optimise a 360degree feedback in a small team" and would appreciate any ♥️ you can give it (likes, shares, comments): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6740619929420095488/ It's a long and a pretty detailed read but any feedback is also welcome! Thank you all and have a great weekend x

hey team - does anyone have experience or tips with buying domains? We use godaddy and have a number of domains but the .com was too expensive for us at the time. GoDaddy offer themselves as an intermediary to negotiate a sale for a few of £90, but I'm wondering if this is the best way to go about it (i.e. actually alerting the owner you want it). I can't see any other way around it, but thought I'd check first!

👋 Hi Everyone - Happy Thursday! 📝 I’m currently writing a blog about the Gender Pay Gap and need your help! I’m doing a bit of research to see what and how companies track the numbers. I’ve put together a quick survey that I would be ever so grateful for you to fill out. Even if you don’t track it, I’m curious to know why and how people are tracking it rather than the number. A few quick notes about the survey: • the survey is anonymous • At the end of the survey I explicitly ask for the % - however, it is not required. • I ask for open ended feedback at the end in case I’ve missed something you’ve been thinking about • I’ve asked for emails at the end if you’re interested to read the post and see the results Link to Gender Pay Gap Survey 🙏 Thanks! *also thanks to @quiet-orange-43581 for her insightful advice!

I guess most of you already know but - https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/14/gmail-youtube-google-docs-and-other-services-go-down-simultaneously-in-multiple-countries/

Hello! Need a recommendation for the safest courier to send a laptop (sameday, London to London). What have people used?

Quick plea! Does anyone <!here> happen to be a whizz at comparing massive data sets?

Hi All, We have a client looking to inherit some furniture from anyone who is no longer looking to keep theirs, as people start to WFH more. If you have some furniture you are no longer keeping, then please drop me a DM. Thanks in advance 🙂. Mo

❓ Quick poll: do you have a specific name for your company all-hands meeting? Our is fortnightly on Thursday and we’re looking for a rebrand (currently ‘Beers & Cheers’)!

Hi all. Has anyone ever had to complete a CO2 audit and can offer advice on process

<!here> At what size did your company decide to hire their first people role? We are currently 13, and trying to justify hiring someone vs outsourcing this for the time being. Thanks for any feedback.

Happy New Year everyone! 🎉 hamster dance

Happy new year!!

Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a nice festive break. How are people approaching the inevitable New Year’s resolutions? If you’ve not set one yet, maybe think about this approach instead: https://christopherjrbond.medium.com/variations-on-a-theme-the-non-smart-alternative-to-new-years-resolutions-b1d5031ca925

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year to all of you, oh the amazing people of Ops Stories!!! pikachu amazeparty unicorn

here's to an awesome first working week of 2021 😛

Hey everyone, has anyone completed a successful Kickstart application for 30+ roles? I’m looking for advice on what they really want to see when assessing applications.

Happy new year all! Coming into the new year I'm looking to build out our partnerships function, specifically from a sales perspective (being outbound, rather than dealing with inbound enquiries) and wondered if anybody had strong experience in this area and could point me in the direction to find some great candidates? Over the last 4 months I've defined the approach and achieved some success, but am now looking to build upon this with dedicated support. Let me know what you think? Thanks in advance, James

Hi Everyone, I have a request that came into Customer Stories, but I think you guys will be better placed to help!

Wondering whether any other companies in here are facing some tricky changes with Brexit VAT/import duties regulations from January... Keen to chat to anyone else currently dealing with this and trying to coming up with some sensible policies 😅

This is from Mous (the phone case company) - let me know if you can help! 🙏

hi all - there’s a strong possibility I might be doing some freelance consulting work over the next couple of months. I think it’ll only be an interim thing until I find my next full time/permanent role so my gut feeling is that it’s just not worth setting up a limited company but just freelancing as a sole trader, but I would appreciate any insights people have. Any thoughts? Also, any suggestions for things like professional indemnity insurance and/or any other things I need to think about when starting out?

Hi everyone, we are considering going fully remote and subletting our small office space out. Does anyone have any recommendations as to where I could advertise this to get a new tenant in? its a 14 person office in Farringdon with a private meeting room, comms room, 2 phone booths, and a kitchen area. Thank you 🙂 And if anyone on this group might be interested then feel free to ping me.

Hi all! 🙂 Reposting it here just in case some of you didn't spot this on #articles-podcasts-books. Is there a book you have read / want to read and discuss with others in Ops Stories? We've got Book Club just for that 🤓 See @colossal-dream-48667's message below for more info!

<!here> Long shot BUT is there (and if there is, what is) a benchmark for how much salaries should take up of the total revenue in a SaaS business? 👀 Asking for a friend but would actually love to know myself. Any ideas/frameworks people use? Thanks in advance!

<!here> Could anyone advice me on a benchmark for a health/wellness budget as part of an employee benefits package? We’re looking to add this to ours at the moment, to support people with access to therapy, health/fitness/wellness memberships or apps. It would be great to understand how much your company offers, and how this is paid?

Happy Friday everyone! I was wondering if anyone has experience with setting up a Weibo or WeChat account for their business in China without registering their business there. Maybe through a third party or otherwise? Would be amazing to discuss / hear about the experience if so as we're hoping to do this over the next few months. Thanks!

Anyone had any experience of shipping computer monitors to employees during the lockdown? So far we've bought new ones or people already had them but I need to arrange collection of one from an employee who has just left. Any reliable couriers anyone can recommend for this?

Hi all - we're just getting started with Hubspot, and the person responsible for the setup in my team would be really keen to have a quick chat with someone who's gone through the process before to make sure we're set up for success (their customer success team are also being a bit slow). If there's anyone in your team who would be able to help I'd appreciate an intro! Thanks in advance

Hi <!here> - I’m conducting some research at the moment on how start-ups and scale-ups define and maintain their culture as the basis for an article. As part of this, I’ve put together a survey (https://m4dkoy30iuj.typeform.com/to/ToWJY5Um) - if anyone who is interested could spare 5 minutes to fill it in, that would be amazing (n.b. there is no identifying information collected in the survey that will tie any response back to an individual or specific company; I’m just interested in trends by company stage, size and sector).