This is interesting for me. My company is fully remote and we have people in 8 states. We have tended to go with the best policies from each state and used that for everyone. I wonder if we need to revisit that assumption.
Yup, short term you're fine. But then you get to a point where politically states change all the things they do around election time etc and it's a never ending cycle of trying to keep up and you'll end up with some folks being treated unfairly.
So in general, it sounds like a more sustainable option may be to give everyone the legally required benefits from their state, then equally give everyone some additional company benefits on top? Ie you get your state min maternity time, plus our company’s returnity policy. Is that basically the mindset?
This is interesting for me. My company is fully remote and we have people in 8 states. We have tended to go with the best policies from each state and used that for everyone. I wonder if we need to revisit that assumption.
Yup, short term you're fine. But then you get to a point where politically states change all the things they do around election time etc and it's a never ending cycle of trying to keep up and you'll end up with some folks being treated unfairly.
So in general, it sounds like a more sustainable option may be to give everyone the legally required benefits from their state, then equally give everyone some additional company benefits on top? Ie you get your state min maternity time, plus our company’s returnity policy. Is that basically the mindset?
Bingo. 🎯
So the use case where one state changes their requirements doesn’t mess up your whole company benefits. Less disruption. More focus.