Caxy
What's the Work-Life Balance Like at Caxy?
Caxy's Candidate Tradeoffs
If you’re weighing whether Caxy is the right fit, these are the core tradeoffs to consider.
- Caxy places greater emphasis on meaningful, high-impact work that shapes outcomes than on roles with lighter expectations.
What People Are Saying About Caxy
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Sustainable Pace: Company materials commit to 40-hour work weeks with no crunch or midnight deployments, emphasizing reasonable deadlines and iteration over heroics. Guardrails include ending client relationships that demand all-nighters to protect team boundaries.
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Time Off Access: Policies encourage guilt-free use of vacation and frame breaks as productive, with paid holidays and PTO intended to be taken. This signals that recharging is a built-in expectation rather than an exception.
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Remote or Hybrid Flexibility: A hybrid model clusters midweek in-office collaboration with remote deep-work days, and flex-time requests are frequently approved. This structure offers choice in work location and schedule within agreed collaboration windows.
Caxy's Benefits
Offers a flexible time off policy
Offers generous PTO
15 PTO days up to year 3. 20 PTO days after year 3. Additional time off after year 6 (sixes time) for time off in the last 2 weeks of December or first week January. 25 PTO days after year 10.
Offers paid volunteer time
We allow 1 day a year of volunteer time.
Offers sabbatical leave
Ever 5 years at the company concurrently, sabbatical leave can be requested. If approved, employees with 4 weeks 100% paid and 2 weeks 50% paid.
Offers unpaid extended leave
Procedures in place to ensure employees utilize PTO
Provides bereavement leave
Provides paid holidays
We are off New Years Eve / New Years Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving/Day After Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. Sometimes we add additional days.
Flexibility provided during personal challenges
Managers trained on identifying and mitigating employee burnout
Offers company-sponsored happy hours
The goal is to go out once a month for drinks and appetizers and get to know each other better.
Offers company-sponsored outings
Caxy's hosts frequent happy hours in Chicago for local people and hosts a number of all- company events where we fly in remote employees. We all bowled together last month.
Offers wellness initiatives designed to combat burnout and mental fatigue
Offers wellness programs
Provides employees with ability to schedule focus-time blocks
Allows work from home occasionally
We are always home Monday and Friday. We expect folks in office at least 2 days a week Tuesday through Thursday unless your role or performance requires 3 days a week.
Async-friendly policies, culture that encourage work flexibility
We expect folks that are working a skewed schedule have 5 hours of cross-over with employees so most hours are still shared and available.
Defined boundaries around off-hours communication
We allow people to set notifications to what works for them after-hours. We use scheduled messages where possible but people can send when needed.
Defined working hours and availability expectations
Documented overtime policy
Most employees are exempt. Those that are not have an overtime policy that is documented in our handbook.
Established expectations for communication between time zones
We all operate based on a 9-5:30Central time.
Flexible work schedule is defined with set expectations for start times, working hours and availability
In-office days / expectations are defined
Offers a remote work program
Some employees are fully remote but most of our team works hybrid. We work from home Mondays and Friday. You must be in office 2 or 3 days a week Tuesday through Thursday.
Provides work from home flexibility
Utilizes a flexible work schedule
Employees work in office 2 days a week between Tuesday-Thursday. We have early Fridays and flex schedules to start anytime between 8-10AM and work 8 hours from that date. FLEX and WFH also exists.
Utilizes a full-time remote friendly model
On rare occasions or for existing employees who have a proven, long-term record of excellence -- permanent remote exists.
Utilizes a hybrid work model
Utilizes a summer hours schedule
We have Early Fridays all year. If you have earned 40 hours by 1PM or any time after on Friday and projects are healthy --- you are able to leave early.
