It’s 10:00 a.m. here in England. Alfred and I have just finished our weekly content sync. Alfred is a content crafter here at Buffer and does an...
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Becoming a Better Manager: The 4 Playlists I Use To Help Me Context-Switch
Before you say context-switching is the worst, hear me out — being a manager, I’ll often have several calls back to back and need to shift...
A New Goal-Setting Framework For A Team That Doesn’t Work on Projects Together
Goal-setting has always been one of my favorite activities. I love the feeling of accomplishing something within a set timeframe and getting to cross it...
Step-by-Step: How We Planned A Retreat For a Remote Team of 75
One of the first projects I took on in bootcamp was helping to plan the next Buffer retreat. Along with my mentor, manager, and friend,...
Transparency in Engineering: Can We Open Source Our Whole Code Base?
As a company that already has all of their employees’ salaries online, we often get asked how far we will go with transparency. On the...
5 Side Hustle Lessons I Learned From My Day Job
I never planned on being an entrepreneur. That label always sounded far too lofty for me. Entrepreneurs were guys in suits working everyone in the...
Buffer in Q1 2017: 4 Million Blog Sessions, Responding to Customers in 13 Seconds, and our 8th retreat in Madrid
Editor’s Note: We’ve switched our Investor’s Reports from monthly to quarterly.We’re excited to keep publishing them in full for our Buffer Open audience in keeping...
How Individuals Advance at Buffer, Without Becoming Managers
The concept of a career path at Buffer has changed a lot over the past six years. We’ve gone through various phases as an organization:...
Why We’ve Stopped Saying “Culture Fit” and What We’re Saying Instead
The phrase “culture fit” is a bit of an Inkblot test in the world of work—even when we all hear the same two words, we might be...
On The Journey to Equal Pay: Here’s Exactly What Men and Women Earn at Buffer
At Buffer, we feel a close connection to the conversation about salaries. We strive to pay all employees fairly and equally, as evidenced by our...
The 10 Biggest Questions We Have as Managers (and What We’re Doing to Answer Them)
We used to have no managers at Buffer. Now we have tons. And we all have a lot of catching up to do. For most of...
There are 5 Points on the Scale of Remote Working. Here’s Where We Fall at Buffer.
I’ve recently found myself reflecting a lot on being a distributed team and the nature of a company where the team works from remote locations to...