Ask HN: Which orgs have strong internal transparency policies?
I’ve found these so far:
- Buffer - salaries, email, progress reports, revenue & user numbers, professional development activities are all open.
- Stripe - "almost all of Stripe’s email is public inside the company".
- Qualtrics - detailed open performance metrics are available on each employee. Seagate also does this.
- Red Hat - uses an open decision-making platform, Memo List.
- SEOmoz - CEO Rand Fishkin publishes his own performance review.
- Asana - minutes of board meetings and weekly executive meetings are available for all employees to read.
Seems there’s two clear types of transparency:
- operational and product transparency
- staffing, performance and compensation transparency
And of course, I can imagine these two different types being received very differently, and (in)appropriate in different circumstances and cultures.