{"id":44,"date":"2013-08-06T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/employee-handbooks-you-can-smile-about\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T20:34:43","slug":"employee-handbooks-you-can-smile-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/employee-handbooks-you-can-smile-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Handbooks You Can Smile About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2011-culture-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121 alignright\" alt=\"2011-culture-book\" src=\"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2011-culture-book.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>We wrote a guest article on <a title=\"Employee Handbooks Don't Have To Suck\" href=\"https:\/\/zenpayroll.com\/blog\/employee-handbooks-dont-have-to-suck\/\">Zen Payroll\u2019s blog<\/a> about the new Employee Handbooks that companies are putting out these days, how they differ from the handbooks of old, and when companies should think about getting either one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the article starts\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Traditionally, employee handbooks have been snooze-inducing legal documents crafted or at least reviewed by a lawyer with the goal of protecting an employer from lawsuits and fines. But the definition of an employee handbook is expanding. Recently, <a title=\"Valve's Employee Handbook\" href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5903955\/read-valves-employee-company-handbook-its-amazing\">companies<\/a> have begun\u00a0<a title=\"Hubspot's Manifesto\/Handbook\" href=\"http:\/\/culturecode.com\">using<\/a> <a title=\"Zaarly Employee Handbook\" href=\"http:\/\/handbook.zaarly.com\/\">employee<\/a> <a title=\"OutSystems: The Small Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outsystems.com\/the-small-book\">handbooks<\/a> in a different way: to define and publish their company culture for employees and recruits alike. These culture handbooks set the tone for interactions throughout a company and paint a picture of what new employees can expect upon joining. So when do handbooks matter to you, and which kind should you have? Depending on your company\u2019s size, you may have one, both, or none.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the <a title=\"Employee Handbooks That Don't Suck\" href=\"https:\/\/zenpayroll.com\/blog\/employee-handbooks-dont-have-to-suck\/\">full article<\/a> on Zen Payroll\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cite\">Photo credit: This is\u00a0<a title=\"Zappo's Culture Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zapposinsights.com\/culture-book\">Zappo\u2019s 2011 Culture Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a guest article on Zen Payroll\u2019s blog about the new Employee Handbooks that companies are putting out these days, how they differ from the handbooks of old, and when companies should think about getting either one of them. Here\u2019s how the article starts\u2026 Traditionally, employee handbooks have been snooze-inducing legal documents crafted or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-culture","category-cya","category-engagement","category-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}