Creating a Handbook for Your Team
As we see with GitLab, there are a multitude of benefits to investing the effort into creating and maintaining a handbook, most notably that it democratizes information for remote workers. Important information is available for anyone at any time, regardless of whether you have direct access to your colleagues or not. Also, cultural benefits can be gained from interfacing with the wider world because hosting a handbook publicly increases the visibility of a company, which in turn assists in attracting new remote talent.
Therefore, it seems like a good idea for your company to have a handbook. However, unless you’re the CEO, or unless you’re in a similar situation to GitLab when it started—that is, when it was ...
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