6. Twitter has just cut paid parental leave from 20 weeks to only 2

Happy May! 🥳

It’s a new month to get the global job of your dreams and we’re here to guide you through it.

In that same light, we have a fresh newsletter entry hot off the press for you. This week’s newsletter has Global Jobs curated for you from our job board, a work tool that improves work productivity, and a workplace callout that will leave you thinking, “How, why, how again?”

We also have a new newsletter section for you that we are sure you will enjoy.

Before you settle down and devour the gist of this #wearedistributed entry, you might want to check out last week’s #5 newsletter where we shed light on different topics including calling out MillerKnoll’s CEO who controversially told her employees to leave pity city because they asked for a bonus.

Yikes.

Don’t believe us? Read last week’s entry here. 

Now, let’s get started with this week’s newsletter. 👇🏾👇🏾

Top Global Jobs of the Week

1/ Product Analytics lead - HotJar

2/ Client Strategist - RTCamp

3/ Director of Customer Success - Muckrack

4/ Senior Front End Software Developer - Public Knowledge Project

5/ Technical Project Manager - HelpScout

Do you know anyone suited for these positions? Share this newsletter with them so they can apply.

Know any employers hiring for roles in at least 3 continents? Direct them to our job board to list a role. (P.S. There are already 36 other active roles for you to check out!)

Global Employment Advocate of the Week

In this week’s Global Employment Advocate of the Week, we’re highlighting Lomit Patel for his contribution to the discourse on the Future of Jobs, the global workforce, and AI.

The discussion on AI and the future of jobs has been on many people’s minds within the last couple of years with many more questions than answers. In this post, Lomit shares a Future of Jobs Report 2023 from WeForum.org. Check it out here if you’re interested in giving it a read. 

Key highlights in his post that we agree with: a well-regulated labor market, a more equitable future of work, and significant skilling resources.

Thanks, Lomit for sharing this insightful report on the Future of Work. It’s given us a lot to think about.

Workplace Callout

In another Twitter blunder, Elon Musk has just cut Twitter employees’ parental leave from 20 weeks to 14 days, as per a report by the New York Times. The new policy states that employees are now subject to whatever state/country’s parental leave laws are, with a “top up” from Twitter of 14 days.

In a tweet from New York Times reporter, Kate Conger, the news broke about Twitter changing its policy.

With over 900 Twitter employees in California, where the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of parental leave, anyone in this state won’t be affected too much, but what does that mean for Twitter employees in different states or globally? As of now, only 12 states have mandatory parental leave, including New York and New Jersey. For everyone else, they’d only get 2 weeks, a cruel amount of time to allow a new parent.

As a behemoth tech company, this isn’t a good look, especially when competing tech company, Google, allows fathers 16 weeks of paternity leave and mothers are given 24 weeks, according to the New York Post. 

Needless to say, there’s been a ton of callouts for Elon Musk’s decision as this is a long string of company cuts he’s implemented, such as his back-to-the-office mandate, his termination of free lunches claiming it cost $13 million a year, daycare costs, and more, according to another article by the New York Post.

For any new parents who live in a place that doesn’t offer paid parental leave, we feel for you.

Green Flags for Job Seekers

Ah yes! The latest section of our newsletter. 🎉

Green Flag for Job Seekers highlights important flags you can look out for when job hunting. Here’s what we mean. 👇🏾👇🏾

Pay Transparency is a green flag as most companies who are open about their pay/pay range do this to build trust with employees and to boost engagement and productivity. Additionally, it’s seen as vital for closing the gender pay gap and also shows that the company is offering fair market rates.

While job hunting, pay transparency also makes you feel reassured that you're being offered the same pay as other candidates and employees with a similar set of skills and experiences.

P.S Pay transparency helps reduce bias in the workplace, which is key to leveraging the playing field for job seekers and employees, ultimately prioritising equality.

Distributed Company of the Week

Audiense, an audience intelligence platform, that's helping marketers and consumer researchers to be innovative and develop relevant audience-centric strategies, is our Distributed Company of the Week!

Audiense has helped over 2000+ brands and agencies put consumer segmentation and cultural insights at the center of their strategy, and gives their teams the ability to understand audiences like never before.

Audiense is globally distributed and offers employees tons of benefits which include wellness days, learning days, birthdays off, global hangouts, and training budgets. You can see the full list of benefits in their Product Developer’s job opening. They also have a 4.2 Glassdoor Rating from 22 current and past employees.

As much as we strive to showcase companies with amazing work cultures and policies, keep in mind when reading reviews that companies have faults and are not perfect as they are being run by real people.

Some things that stood out to us when reading about how their company works: Audiense has a remote-first style work culture, and has been working 100% remotely for more than 8 years.

Their mindset, workflows, and communication are also remote which means everything is documented in Github: growth plans, learning path, architecture, protocols, onboarding, playbooks, design system, UX guidelines, etc.

They're invested in making their daily routines as autonomous as possible to allow them to work remotely efficiently.

Lest we forget, the company is transparent about salary which is a green flag!

Distributed Tool of the Week

Fireflies.ai, an AI tool that simplifies note-taking by transcribing voice conversations in real time, is our Distributed Tool of the Week!

Instead of struggling to listen during a meeting and take notes, Fireflies.ai uses voice recognition technology to take notes during meetings and transcribe them in real time, which allows you to focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.

Asides from eliminating the need for redundant note-taking, the tool makes your meetings more efficient and your job easier by:

• Joining the meetings on your calendar automatically

• Capturing video + audio, and generating transcripts in minutes

• Integrating with apps like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams Webex, Ringcentral, Aircall, and other platforms

Fireflies also make it easy for you to collaborate effectively with your team.

How?

Fireflies add comments, pins, and reactions to specific parts of conversations. It also creates soundbites and easily shares the most memorable moments from meetings.

This AI tool also shares meeting notes with your favorite collaboration apps like Slack, Notion, Asana, and more.

Want to take notes during your meetings/interviews so you can stay on top of important info? You can get started with Fireflies for free. Do you want to use the tool for your department or small team? Check out the flexible pricing plan you need to supercharge your team’s conversations.

Fireflies.ai also has a new add-on, AskFred, which is a type of ChatGPT for meetings that helps you write emails blogs, and do so much more with AI!

Global Employment Word of the Week

Ready to learn something new?

Compressed Working Week - This flexible work arrangement allows employees to re-arrange their 40-hour workweek into longer but fewer days. For example, instead of working eight hours a day for five days a week, you might propose four 10-hour workdays.

This works if you have plans for some days of the week or if you work better on specific days!

And that’s a wrap on this week’s newsletter!

We hope you’ve found this week’s edition as interesting and fun to read as it was to write.

Tune in next week for another roundup of jobs, tools, and workplace news and advocates before we dive back into our monthly BTS stats the following week.

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