{"id":118060,"date":"2020-08-26T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=118060"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T17:50:55","slug":"more-on-flexwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/more-on-flexwork\/","title":{"rendered":"More on FLEXWORK: Flexible Learning, Benefits and Workspaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the pandemic hit, we responded quickly at Palo Alto Networks with an employee choice program we called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.paloaltonetworks.com\/en\/flexwork\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FLEXWORK<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We empowered our people to decide what they needed to work productively in this moment \u2013 while meeting their own personal needs and those of their families. That ranged from an entirely work from home model for some, to a hybrid approach for others who wanted it, allowing them to access COVID-safe offices, where local regulations allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last quarter, I\u2019ve been on a mission to sit down (virtually, of course) with as many of our employees as I can to ask them how things are going, what they need, and how we can continue to support them in this new environment. The feedback has been tremendous.\u00a0 Colleagues told me frankly what\u2019s helped them stay productive, and they also discussed challenges they anticipate for the long haul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on these sessions and feedback we\u2019ve gathered across the company, I\u2019m excited to announce that we are launching the next phase of FLEXWORK to help all of our global employees stay safe, feel healthy and maintain productivity. As we shared with our employees today, the FLEXWORK program will expand to include a broad range of initiatives \u2013 adding flexibility to our benefits, learning and work from home.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>FLEXBENEFITS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No two employees are the same in the support they need. For one, tutoring help for school-aged children might reduce the anxiety of online learning. For another, that Peloton subscription is all that\u2019s getting them out of bed in the morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to our current benefits, we plan to give our employees an additional allowance of US$1,000 per year (or the equivalent outside the United States) beginning Nov. 1. Employees can use this to choose from a new menu of flexible benefits, with options including health, wellbeing and education.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first step: Over time we intend to individualize all benefits, centering them around employee choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FLEXLEARN<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, the skills we need to stay productive range hugely. A new graduate joining the workforce remotely needs a different kind of support to a leader navigating a distributed team.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re launching customizable learning paths to help employees not only meet the challenges posed by this new environment, but also flourish in their careers. With FLEXLEARN, employees select learning when and how they want it, with solutions that will continue to expand, including eLearning and discussion forums, and mentoring.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of this has already begun \u2013 we launched a six-week on-demand learning series at our Sales Kick Off this month to guide our sales professionals through our products. In addition to our sales team, we\u2019ll prioritize new employees and managers to start, expanding FLEXLEARN to cover all roles over the next 18 months.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FLEXSPACE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially an experiment through December 2020, we\u2019re also extending our work from home options through July 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long term, we see our offices as collaboration spaces where employees can collaborate, innovate and solve really tough problems: an anchor for our relationships where we have the opportunity to be together and develop deeper bonds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll continue to gather feedback as we roll out these initiatives. This is about working with support, trust and flexibility. The results so far make me excited for where we can take this, together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(On that note: our amazing employees, below.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"styleIt\" style=\"width:560px;height:315px;\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"Zt2Di9gUTDo\" ><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palo Alto Networks expands FLEXWORK to include flexible learning, benefits and workspaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":118061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6719],"tags":[1124,7276],"coauthors":[7040],"class_list":["post-118060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-culture","tag-careers","tag-flexwork"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/WFH-blog.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118060"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298883,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118060\/revisions\/298883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}