It's important essential to Tidepool that we support our employees’ efforts to learn, grow, and improve. These are some of the key benefits of working at Tidepool , and are central to our company culture.

Learning Budget

Every full-time employee has a company budget up to $2000 to support any learning activity that they want to pursue related to to help enhance the work they do at Tidepool. This doesn’t need to be a class explicitly linked to their current role, but it the opportunity should help them the employee improve a skill that will be useful for them at Tidepool. Each employee has an annual budget of $2,000 which can be spent towards program fees/tuition, tickets, flights, and hotels for industry conferences, classes, mentorship programs, books, programs, videos, or other places that they feel will provide be valuable learning experiences.

These expenses should be discussed in one-on-ones one with your supervisor and approved by the CEOyour department’s VP. Once approved please send a confirmation email to the VP of People and Finance outlining the opportunity and anticipated amount. This budget resets at the beginning of every calendar year and does not roll over.

Employees can also use work hours to work on learning projects, though this should be limited to about four hours a week and not interfere with your core responsibilities.

Speaker Support

It makes Tidepool look looks great when our employees speak at industry conferences, so we love to support Tidepool employees who are invited to speak to their peers about their area areas of expertise. For each event, Tidepool will pay for the flights and hotel up to $1,000 dollars, and employees are each eligible for this benefit 2 times per year (this budget is separate from the learning budget). Employees should get approval from the CEO or a their VP about which conferences are appropriate to speak at , and to make sure that conference dates don’t interfere with important company dates. Once there is approval, please notify the VP of People and Finance.

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