2025-01-07
19 分钟Ever since it was founded in the late 1990s, Netflix has tried to build a special work culture.
Think about it as sort of a corporate anti bureaucracy utopia.
So there's a lot of transparency.
That's our colleague Jessica Tunkel.
She says that Netflix trusted employees with a lot of leeway.
Everyone could access strategy plans and could weigh in on things.
You know, the expense policy was like act in Netflix's best interest.
So if that meant flying business class, go do it.
If it means taking your team to a five star restaurant, go do it like it was.
There was no red tape on anything.
Netflix also gave out really generous benefits when it came to things like vacation.
And in 2015, the company added a perk that was especially unusual even among tech companies.
A whole year of paid parental leave.
So the idea behind this was, look, we're looking at tech companies all the time.
We're trying to recruit from them.
Google was one that they talk about a lot.
Google's policy at the time I believe was 18 weeks paid leave, which is pretty significant.
And they said, let's do better than that.
Let's say people can take up to a year unlimited.
And.