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Launched in April 2020, Jot Coffee, a newly launched DTC (direct-to-consumer) coffee brand, has quickly picked up steam as the new at-home coffee brand that delivers an exceptionally delicious experience, both in-person and digitally. But how did they manage to generate so much interest and excitement for their launch? Read ...

This team communication regarding COVID-19 is part of our COVID-19 Response Series. You can see all the messages in the series here. Shared: March 4, 2020 Posted by: Courtney Seiter, Director of People Title: We are postponing our planned June retreat in Athens We are postponing our planned June retreat ...

One of the most conversation-provoking perks we’ve ever launched at Buffer is our Dependents Grant. This benefit provides a $3,000 USD stipend to teammates for each person who depends on their salary (including spouses, partners, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.). When it first launched in 2016, the grant was designed ...

With transparency as one of our defining values at Buffer, we’re always seeking opportunities to share more information with the world. In addition to: ….we’ve also tried to remain open about our financial progress by sharing our revenue metrics with the world. We’ve done this through monthly blog posts, Tweetstorms, ...

You can’t improve something if you don’t know that it needs to be improved. That was very true for us four years ago when we first started looking into equal pay at Buffer. We have long used a salary formula to determine all of our salaries – the same role ...

When I joined Buffer and opened my new Buffer email account for the first time, the email count read 200.  I was momentarily stunned. That was way more emails than I’d ever had in one place before. Usually, when you set up an email account at a new workplace, your ...

Before I worked in a remote team, I was a freelancer and never needed to collaborate with teams very much. The way I used my calendar back then was pretty basic; maybe a birthday here and there. But when I joined Buffer in 2015 that suddenly changed. The more I ...

For the past few years, we’ve been on a journey to make sure our Buffer swag – the branded merchandise that goes out to teammates, customers and the world – reflects our Buffer values. Branded merchandise has a vast footprint on the environment — in terms of production, shipping, employment ...

As an always-evolving company, Buffer has shared a lot of our successes and failures along the way — and we view each of these ups and downs as chances to learn and grow. One area we’ve experimented with deeply in the past year has been onboarding – how we bring ...

Ever since a global pandemic exploded the ranks of remote workers in a matter of a few weeks, folks have been turning to longtime remote companies like Buffer for answers. We wish we had them. Buffer has been fully remote for almost 10 years, but this is not normal remote ...