At Roblox, we’ve at all times believed groups are most profitable when aligned round a shared imaginative and prescient and given the autonomy to sort out huge alternatives. This precept has been a guiding pressure as we’ve navigated the challenges of the pandemic over the previous two years—and will probably be the cornerstone of our method as we take into consideration the way forward for work at Roblox.
Because the begin of the pandemic, we’ve all needed to alter to new methods of residing and dealing. Over time, what began as a short-term experiment in distant work grew to become the brand new regular. And whereas folks at the moment are slowly returning to the workplace, we acknowledge that the world as we all know it has modified. In response, we’ve put collectively a brand new work mannequin powered by private duty that provides groups and leaders the pliability to resolve how they work finest given their objectives.
An Empowered and Versatile Office
Our method to the way forward for work at Roblox is grounded in two of our firm values: Take the Lengthy View and Take Accountability.
As we concentrate on our imaginative and prescient to reimagine the way in which folks come collectively, we acknowledge we’ve to be considerate about how we allow and empower our staff to ship on that long-term imaginative and prescient. Over the previous yr, we’ve listened to our Robloxians by firm surveys, focus teams, and one-on-one classes, and we perceive they worth flexibility as they give thought to working remotely or within the workplace. On the similar time, we additionally acknowledge there are beliefs which can be essential to us as an organization—comparable to innovation, creativity, and collaboration—which can be simpler to nurture after we are working collectively in individual, particularly as we proceed to scale our groups and our enterprise. We really feel it’s essential for all staff to return again into the workplace at key factors all year long and we additionally need to guarantee that our time spent collectively is purposeful and intentional. Subsequently we’re encouraging staff to return again, and for many who select to work remotely, we’re guaranteeing that they are often distant efficiently.
We’re providing Roblox staff the choice to both come to the workplace repeatedly just a few days every week, or to primarily work remotely and are available to the workplace at varied occasions all year long for quarterly get-togethers.
- For individuals who stay regionally and who plan to return right into a Roblox workplace three days every week—scheduled Tuesday by Thursday—and spend the opposite two days wherever they work finest, whether or not it’s at dwelling, a espresso store, or elsewhere, we’ll make sure that they’ve a devoted desk to allow them to sit close to their teammates or different collaborators.
- For individuals who stay regionally or remotely, and who plan to work primarily from dwelling, we’ll present them with a hoteling desk and help their journey to go to our San Mateo places of work no less than quarterly for in-person collaboration weeks. Internationally-based staff will are available in for no less than one week per yr. Particular person groups will decide the week(s) they arrive in.
For total firm occasions the place all of us come collectively, we’ll proceed with our weekly City Halls, our month-to-month AMAs with our CEO David Baszucki, our open lunches with management, and we’ll kick off new annual get-togethers like Roblox Week. We may also preserve our no-meeting days and core hours.
We may also proceed to supply the flexibility for all staff to work wherever they legally can for as much as two months per yr. It is a distinctive providing that many staff have taken benefit of prior to now yr.
In designing this new method, we wished to supply staff flexibility to realize extra management over their work and private lives whereas additionally offering common touchpoints to attach, share concepts, and construct relationships in individual. Some groups in engineering have discovered working in individual is important as a result of it evokes serendipitous collaboration and makes it simpler to resolve issues collectively. For brand new faculty graduates, we all know how essential it’s to construct in-person relationships early of their careers and be mentored by senior colleagues, so all new faculty graduates will begin out within the workplace with devoted desks amongst their staff and collaborators. In the meantime, in my Folks, Advertising and marketing, and Company Communications group, we’ve determined as a bunch after we need to come into the workplace. We’ve discovered a steadiness between the necessity for in-person collaboration and the pliability of working remotely. Regardless of which mode of labor our staff select, we’ll present extra alternatives and help for groups to assemble collectively in individual and collaborate all year long.
Our purpose at Roblox is to construct an progressive, inventive, world-class group. That is the start of our journey as we embark on our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for work at Roblox. We’re continually studying, listening, and iterating—and that will likely be no completely different as we roll out this work mannequin. We’re excited to see how this new approach of working progresses us down that path.
