Hi Everyone <!here>, I hope everyone is doing well. I feel like this has been asked already, but I cannot find anything in search inbox so here it is - I am looking to set up new employee review process and would love to hear what others have in place currently such as: 1. How often to you run employee reviews - every year or every six months? 2. Do you do any quarterly reviews and if so, what is their purpose? 3. 1:1s - how, after do you run 1:1s with your team members and the structure? 4. Do you set personal development plans for your team? Previously, monthly 1:1s check -in with a reviews on progression every six months worked really well, but I have experienced different setups before so really interested to hear what others are doing - the simpler, the better 😄 thank you 😄

Hi All - just wanted to flag the survey I’m running again on start-up/scale-up cultures. There’s been a great response so far but it would be great to get more data points so if you haven’t filled it in it only takes 5 minutes! If people are happy to share it with their networks that would also be amazing - I will be sharing the results in an article on defining and maintaining culture within an organisation so the more responses we can get the more insightful the end product will be! 😄 https://m4dkoy30iuj.typeform.com/to/ToWJY5Um 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).

Hey all! got a question for those who're in London and have been (or will be) dealing with an

office move-out

. 📦 We're moving out of our space in April and I'm looking for: • Storage company recommendation (we've got 40 desks and some other furniture we'd like to stow away for a while) • Virtual office postal address recommendation • Movers recommendation (for them to pack away the office and move everything into storage) Thank you! 🙏🏻

Morning! Hope everyone is well. Would anybody with US employees be able to share what package they offer them? Ie. Healthcare/401k/Vacation days/Sick Pay/Parental leave? We're in the process of setting up a US subsidiary and I'm trying to benchmark so I can create a package for our first employee over there..

Hello! Does anyone here work in Fintech (particularly payments) and would be able to give half an hour of their time to discuss fraud detection methodologies/common payment fraud indicators?

Hi all, a random question? Did anyone run a TV ad? or has contacts working at a TV channel?

Hello. Does anyone here lease laptops, and could recommend their provider? Thanks!

Morning (almost noon) everyone! For those who were interested in the topic of SALARY REVIEWS and RAISES, (a little overdue) but I’ve just published my blog containing everything I’ve learned from my research. You can read via here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ingadriksne_salary-reviews-and-raises-in-startupseverything-activity-6763415499175940097-ZmaT/ Would appreciate a like or comment whilst you’re there. Thank you and Happy Friday!!

Hi All! Does anyone here work or have links to the hospitality industry? I'm looking to get in touch with hotels/ hotel chains in regard to the government's decision to mandate hotel isolation for individuals flying home from certain countries. Ideally, we'd like to look at striking a strategic partnership with some chains (we already have one with Premier Inn)! Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! 🙂

Hi everyone! I'm asking this on behalf of someone in the community as this is a sensitive question ⚕️

Has anyone had experience with their employees dealing with severe mental health issues such as manic depression, paranoia, severe anxiety, shizoaffective disorder (bipolar/depression)? What was your experience if you ended up going through capability procedure/measure, or what the eventual outcome was?

🤝 🍩 ANNOUNCEMENT 🍩 🤝 <!here>

TL;DR:

We have a better way for you to meet other ops people 121 🙂

What?

So that you can meet and connect with more likeminded ops souls in Ops Stories community and build your network, we're introducing #coffee-buddies and Watercooler chats powered by @brave-tomato-36854*

Action:

Join #coffee-buddies channel to get introduced to a fellow Ops Stories member every 2 weeks 🤝 *Donut has agreed to sponsor us so we get unlimited introductions for a year starting TODAY 🎉

Hello <!channel>! 🙂 We'll have our first Donut 121s matched this morning. If you want to network and meet your fellow ops people, join in at #coffee-buddies! All you have to do is join the channel and wait for it. the matches will happen every two weeks 🤝 🍩 You can opt out any time by leaving the #coffee-buddies channel, or re-join when you want to opt back in 👍🏻 Happy connecting! ⭐

Hey all - we're thinking of introducing a monthly guest speaker to talk to the company about work/life things like imposter syndrome, burnout etc & I wondered if anybody else does this? And does anybody have any recommendations for good speakers, or someone they've used in the past? Thanks!

I'm full of questions today.. sorry 😂 does anybody offer sabbaticals? We're thinking of introducing one (ie. one month paid every 5 years maybe?) but looking for a benchmark..

Happy Friday everyone! We are looking for a way to be able to upload an order with multiple addresses onto Shopify without having to manually do it. We already have the Giftship that allows customers to manually input the different address when placing orders, however we sometimes have corporate clients that just send us an excel spreadsheet with 100+ rows of addresses and we are looking for an efficient way to cope with these. Any ideas are welcome!

❄️ Happy Monday morning everyone! ❄️ Looking for advice on frozen delivery! Think frozen ice cream, your latest vaccine, or meal kit delivery subscription… Do you know anyone in this space? What packaging do you use? Any preferred couriers?  🚗 🍦 💉

Hi everyone, Looking to get an idea of a realistic day rate for bringing on a advisor/consultant (more of a prev c-suite in the industry than McKinsey consultant).

<!here> new channel alert! alert Thanks @happy-jewelry-69855 for setting up #candidate-sharing so we can all safely share profiles of candidates that we find exceptional but for some reason aren't able to offer roles in our companies.

🚨 📣 🚨 📣 🚨 NEWSFLASH! Ops Stories is heading to LinkedInlinkedin <!here> 👪 This year at Ops Stories we’ll be looking at new ways that our members can leverage the power of our community. 🔍 As a first step, we want to make it easier for you to see who else is in the community, in a way that is easy to search and understand. Need to find someone else in FinTech? Retail? Series A? Looking for that all-important introduction for a new role? Slack helps us chat and share, but doesn’t always help us find the right person to ask. linkedin We’d like to build a members directory, but for now we’re going to leverage LinkedIn to give us a head-start. It won’t be mandatory in any way, but the more of us that do it, the more useful it’ll be! ➡️ If you like the sound of this, please take a look at the FAQs page, and get Ops Stories onto your LinkedIn profile!! Big shout out to @faint-gigabyte-38855 @quiet-orange-43581 @adventurous-action-89434 for organising!

<!channel> After chatting with @adventurous-action-89434 and @quiet-orange-43581, we wanted to see if there is any appetite for a Parenting channel? I thought this could be useful for sharing advice... • General parenting tips (it would be interesting to know if we, as Ops people, have a common parenting style... ) • Managing working parents within the business / how we can support them • Returning to work after Maternity / Paternity leave  👶 • Homeschooling top tips 🚸 • Product advice / recommendations The group is of course open to ALL not just parents. So if you are a parent already, an expecting parent or wanting to be parent or to ask parents specific questions to help with your offering in the business Please let me know interest by leaving a 🗣️ (which symbolises me screaming into a pillow sometimes 😂)

#parent-hack is open for anyone wanting to join. If you left a 🗣️, then you have been added already

🆘 to a word whizz! I have been battling with a table of contents in a contract (word for mac) for longer than I would care to mention this afternoon and, ultimately defeated🤯, I have ended up having to copy and paste special with no formatting to circumvent the problem. This has worked for now but is not a long term solution as this is a contract we use repeatedly. If you're a pro on word 🤓💡, I would be so grateful for a 10/15 mins screen share and chat to try and resolve this once and for all please! No urgent rush for it to be this afternoon since I've sorted the contract I need to send today. Thank you in advance to any kind souls who can help! 🙏

Helpful visual

More realistic visual ...

I'd probably say it's gonna be Step 1 > Step 2 > Step 3 > Step 4...no wait, Step 2 🤔

I think step 4 is get drunk in Spain, Greece, France, etc

Hi everyone! At Springbok AI we would like to trial the implementation of the 4-day week in Q2. Has anyone done this and could share your experience with challenges, steps of implementation and if it worked or not for your company? Thank you!

Yes Dorina - we tried it. DM me and we can discuss.

Hi Everyone, does anyone have some sort of playbook around city launching or country expansions? Something similar around the space of Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, etc. Looking to help a friend expand their U.S services into Canada and wanted to see if folks had a playbook of some sort. Thanks in advance for the help!

Happy Friday everyone! Ending the week on a positive note with the ☀️ shining and a shout out to @happy-waiter-46263 for his amazing help earlier this week with my Word formatting woes! Thank you. 🎉