Join us as we share what we’re learning as we build a company that approaches work from a fresh perspective. We write about workplace culture, our finances, and our business decisions and strategies.

2021 Pay Analysis: How We’ve Lowered Our Gender Pay Gap From 15% to 5.5%

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Here are all of our numbers from our 2021 pay analysis, along with more on the positive impact that transparency has had on the gender pay gap for us.

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How We Decide What To Pay Our Team: Our Salary Formula and Compensation Philosophy

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In this post, we share an overview of our compensation philosophy and a simple explanation of our salary formula.

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Inside Our Engineering Mentorship Program and How It Helps Our Engineers Grow

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Hack-Week: Embedding Our Values and Causes in Our Product

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4-Day Work Weeks: Results From 2020 and Our Plan for 2021

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Shareholder Update: Q4, 2020 — 2020 Results and What's Ahead

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Crafting a Support Network as a Founder and CEO

Business and SaaS strategy

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Welcoming Maria Thomas as Buffer’s Chief Product Officer

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Shareholder Update: Q3 2020

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Reflecting on 10 Years of Building Buffer

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Shareholder Update: Q2 2020 and July

Reports

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When We Need to Move Quickly We Work in Task Forces. Here’s How We Set Them Up

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The Evolution of Product at Buffer and the Next Step: We’re Hiring a VP of Product

Business and SaaS strategy

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Why Transparent Email Stopped Working For Us and What We Do Instead

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We used to have a system called "transparent email" for all internal communication at Buffer. That stopped working for us, here's what we do now.

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Buffer Is Moving to a 4-Day Workweek for the Rest of 2020

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We’ve decided to conduct a long-term pilot of the 4-day workweek. See our results so far and what we're adding next.

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We’re Trying a 4-Day Workweek for the Month of May

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How We Hold an Engaging All Hands Meeting as a Remote Team

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Snowmelt Meetings: Why I’m Meeting With My Team Even More Right Now

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Is Remote Work Greener? We Calculated Buffer’s Carbon Footprint to Find Out

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I have always assumed that a remote company must have a lower carbon footprint, but is that true?

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Business as Abnormal: Every Message We’ve Shared With Our Team (So Far) During COVID-19

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No one knows how to work during a pandemic, and we’re all grappling through it together. So in the spirit of sharing, here are all of the internal messages we’ve shared with our team and shareholders during this time.

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The Evolution of Onboarding at Buffer: How We Welcome New Teammates

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Here’s a look at how we’ve evolved the process of onboarding teammates at Buffer -- what we've stopped, started, and are doing next.

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Sustainable Swag: Aligning Our Values with Our Merchandise

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How I Master My Calendar on Buffer’s Distributed Team

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Pay Analysis Update: Examining Equal Pay at Buffer in 2020

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