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The Best Way We’ve Found To Get Employees To Take More Vacation Time (And It Isn’t Unlimited Vacation)

Like many other tech companies, we used to have an unlimited vacation policy as a way to encourage employees to take vacation days when it...

Company Culture

We’re Retiring The ‘Buffer Bootcamp’ Period For New Teammates – Here’s Why

The “Buffer Bootcamp” is a rite of passage that’s long been a staple of our culture at Buffer. This is the 45-day period that all...

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Learning Sabbatical: How Existing Employees Are Developing New Skills for Different Roles

We believe in constant experimentation and self-improvement at Buffer. You might know this if you’ve followed along with our trying self-management or making regular changes...

Buffer News and Updates

The Research Behind How Brand Names Impact Customers and What Name We’ve Changed at Buffer

Names create an identity that people can associate with, they create perceptions and they let customers know what to expect. There is a lot of...

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The Next Step in Buffer’s Social Media Journey

Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer...

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Why We Decided To Give All Employees $20 per Month for Learning and Development

One of the 10 Buffer values we aspire to is constant self-improvement, which includes learning new skills, new information, new everything. Little did we know...

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The Buffer Teammate Protection Pledge: How We Protect Our Team When A Customer Is Abusive

Our whole team engages with many people online every day across various platforms. Most of these experiences are happy, positive, thought-provoking, and often quite funny....

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Batman and Robin: How We Describe Teammate Responsibilities

Have you ever worked on a project where it was unclear who — if anyone — was leading? ✋? I have. And it made me...

Company Culture

The 6 Exercises We’re Doing to Help With Artificial Harmony

Have you ever walked out of a meeting and messaged someone who had been in that very meeting to say something that you didn’t feel...

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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,...

Buffer News and Updates

Buffer and the AWS Outage: How This Interruption May Have Affected Your Posts

tl;dr – Buffer experienced interrupted service due to the AWS outage on Tuesday. All is back to normal now, and all posts are going out...

Buffer News and Updates

Cloudbleed Update: Buffer Data Is Not Affected

tl;dr – Customers should not worry about their Buffer data after the Cloudbleed incident Several hours ago our team learned of a large security incident at Cloudflare, a service we...

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