When we elevate our work to a craft, the work becomes particularly demanding. This requires all of us to be at our healthiest (in body and mind), which is a shared responsibility between NOBL and its employees. NOBL, the company, owes you a relatively harmonious workplace, a healthy amount of time away from it, and a workload that doesn’t routinely spill into your personal hours. Your responsibility is to maintain healthy relationships at work, work productively, set and enforce work life boundaries, and use the time afforded to you outside the company well.

This page covers all of your benefits in plain, simple language so that you can make the most of them. Please send any questions to [email protected].

Paid Time Off

Employees at NOBL are entitled to three weeks (15 days) of paid time off per calendar year. This PTO allowance will accrue gradually throughout the year at the rate of 0.625 days per pay period and can be used for vacation, personal time, or other reasons at the discretion of the employee. Up to 5 days of vacation time can be rolled over into the new year. Vacation accruals cap when an employee has 20 days of accrued but unused vacation. If you have a vacation planned but do not have enough time off accrued, you can borrow against up to 10 days of unaccrued vacation with the understanding that we may deduct those days from your final check if you terminate your employment.

We are committed to ensuring that all Bells take at least 2 weeks of vacation each calendar year and we prefer that you plan ahead and schedule time off that supports your needs. We encourage you to plan at least 60 days in advance and work with your Account Lead to determine a schedule that supports both your needs and our clients. Be sure to submit a Time-off Request via Gusto.

How to execute your time off request:

When you’re planning a (read: you’ve booked or coordinated something in advance) vacation:

• Please try and do so at least 60 days in advance or prior to the start of a longer engagement.
• Submit a Time-off Request in Gusto, which will be circulated for approval from your Account Lead. Vacation approvals are subject to the following considerations:
  • Time-off Requests are considered on a first-come, first served basis.
  • Overlapping Time-off Requests by people on the same account are evaluated on a case-by-case basis by Account Leads.
  • Time-off Requests with a duration of two consecutive weeks or longer are evaluated on a case-by-case basis by senior leadership. For more, see paid sabbatical policy linked below.
• After you’ve discussed and received approval from your Account Lead and/or Growth Coach, let your teammates and anybody affected know.
• Remind your Account team when your time off is coming up.
• Prepare Out of Office Handoff document (example here) and prepare to circulate to impacted teammates.
• Let the full NOBL team know in our Planning meeting the week before
• Turn on an auto responder for your time away.
  • Align with your Account Lead as to where your autoresponder will point.

Paid Sick Leave

When you are sick (this might be physiological or psychological), please don’t work. As soon as you’re not feeling great, let your Account Lead and the team members on your specific tracks know. We’ll want to make sure all open threads are being handled. If your sickness lasts more than a day, please continue to be in touch with updates.