We want to bring the same joy to our employees that we bring to our customers. Our core values create a culture where all team members can thrive personally and professionally. We hold town halls and weekly all-company meetings, and we have a team whose sole job is to surprise and delight employees. Beyond a traditional health care benefit, we provide a reimbursement for equipment, classes, and memberships focused on wellness. This past year, we provided every employee with additional Wellness Bucks to be spent on anything that makes working from home easier, less stressful, and more rewarding.

YCharts is a meritocracy that rewards those with a positive attitude who make colleagues smarter and better. We believe all employees should be fully informed on the big picture of the business, including vision, strategy, finances and key performance indicators. Pre-COVID office perks included draft beer, a mini putting green and unlimited snacks and drinks. In the pandemic, we've sponsored educational speakers and offered stipends so employees could stay physically and mentally fit, as well as extending summer hours for the entire year. Going forward, we will offer all team members continued remote work options.

More than the startup-style perks like unlimited time off, it's our culture that makes our employees love working here. From day one, every employee understands what we value (and what we don't). And every promotion comes with a company-wide speech from the manager, highlighting the values the employee demonstrates in their work — not only to celebrate our employees but also to reinforce our values. We don't wait for employees to ask for raises; we increase their pay as they start adding more value.

Yoko Co starts with the basic premises of treating everyone with respect and putting systems and processes in place that enable people to achieve more. We challenge our team members to become the best version of themselves through a combination of training and events, as well as a personal development budget. The team is almost fully remote, and there are no set office hours. We offer unlimited paid vacation, profit sharing, 401(k) match, insurance, and 40 days off each year between holidays, alternating four-day workweeks, and our two-week year-end shutdown.

At YPTC, culture comes first. The first step in achieving an outstanding culture is open communication. We have cultivated a strict open-door policy for employees to approach management with concerns of any type, we celebrate employee milestones, and we avoid the high-stress business of tax accounting. Measures such as these build a foundation of trust, and we can better serve our nonprofit clients' mission with that foundation in place.