
ĭon’t take yourself too seriously! Ever playful and silly, The Motley Fool compiled their handbook into “The Fool’s Rules” to best incorporate their favorite quirks and guiding principles. Read Valve’s full Handbook for New Employees here. All these things are here for you to actually use… If we ever institute caviar-catered lunches, though, then maybe something’s wrong. If you find yourself walking down the hall one morning with a bowl of fresh fruit and Stumptown-roasted espresso, dropping off your laundry to be washed, and heading into one of the massage rooms, don’t freak out. “Sometimes things around the office can seem a little too good to be true. Outside of these formalized peer reviews, the expectation is that we’ll just pull feedback from those around us whenever we need to.” Once a year we all give each other feedback about our work. “We all need feedback about our performance-in order to improve, and in order to know we’re not failing. In this case, Valve wants their employees to tackle their work with both a sense of humor and a determination to get things done.

With clever, cheeky comic strips strewn throughout the handbook, Valve keeps their employees’ attention and conveys the attitude they’d like others to take about their work.

Valve’s employee handbook has been praised often over the years for similar reasons.
