How Blind Dates, Chance Encounters, and Creative Onboarding Built One Company’s Culture of Ideas
FreshBooks had a problem: The Toronto company was taking on so many employees so quickly that it felt as if there were strangers in its new office. Mike McDerment, the chief executive of the cloud accounting software service, noticed the change just after the 160th hire.
“People were walking past me in the hallway, staring at their shoes,” he said.
His company had made huge gains with a product in an entrenched market, and he worried that a divided office culture—between new and tenured employees — would diminish its start-up advantage.
