Global charity fundraising platform GivenGain has given its employees carte blanche to choose where they want to work from in future.From 1 July, all 134 employees across GivenGain, its parent company Humanstate and Humanstate’s residential rental payment platform PayProp were given this choice as part of the Humanstate group’s wider adoption of distributed working practices.
Work from anywhere
Staff in the UK, the United States, Canada, Switzerland and South Africa can now work from home, while travelling, in corporate and group offices – newly converted into co-working spaces – or theoretically, the beach.
Humanstate has already made its first fully ‘distributed’ (location-independent) appointment, hiring a new senior accountant after an interview and onboarding process conducted entirely remotely via videoconferencing. While her employer is registered in Switzerland, the new accountant happens to be working from South Africa.
Major impact
One can only truly begin to understand the impact of the decision when considering the surrender of management control that comes with it.
“As a charitable foundation that assists fundraisers, events and charities through our global fundraising platform, this structure is a perfect fit for us,” says Marius Maré, GivenGain’s President. “Our new distributed structure allows us to appoint staff in new time zones, as we continue to remotely support partners across six continents.
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