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What to measure in employee performance reviews
Measurements are an object of common managerial proverbs: “you can’t improve, what you can’t measure” and “what gets measured, g...

Holacracy after the hype: lessons for business
It has often been tough to separate Holacracy from its accompanying hype. The alternative management system, meant to distribute...

How to build a strong talent acquisition team
When companies are still in their infancy, building a talent acquisition team mightn’t be a priority. But, as they grow, the nee...

How to foster workplace diversity
Diversity is generally accepted as an asset to modern teams. Research has shown that it can result in greater innovation and mar...

The false economy of unpaid internships
The word ‘intern’ has an ironic double meaning: to work as a trainee and to confine someone as a prisoner. Most articles about u...

How we’ve scaled our customer support team
Workable’s support team used to be one person in Athens. Now we’re in Boston, Athens and Australia and we’ve added 6 new team me...

Succession planning: a guide to get it right
Effective succession planning is a company’s insurance policy for sustainability. This becomes clear when critical positions bec...

Performance review alternatives to the traditional approach
The traditional approach to performance appraisals has long been in need of a rethink, with some smart companies looking at...

4 effective salary negotiation tips for employers
Making an offer to a job candidate is a question of balance. This is not about winning, it’s about reaching agreement on a...

How to scale your distributed team
Technology has advanced to the point that remote working no longer conjures the image of freelancers in pajamas. Thanks to ...

Lessons from a distributed team
Like a lot of its peers Workable began life as a fully distributed team. The two founders, Nikos Moraitakis and Spyros Magiatis ...

Separating cult from culture
You know what to expect from a headline like this. You’ll be introduced to some brainwashed characters displaying cultish behavi...