<aside> 🏖️ A wellness stipend where you can choose your own adventure — whatever makes you feel healthy and whole.

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The Column Adventure stipend benefit will be phased out, with December 31, 2024 serving as the final day to submit any claims via Compt.

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Overview

Amount and Period: $900 per quarter provided upfront (not prorated) for US-based Columnists. Local currency equivalent for Columnists outside of the United States.

Wellness Categories: Including, but not limited to:

• Physical: gym membership, home gym equipment, exercise classes
• Intellectual: personal or professional development, executive coaching, books, Kindle Unlimited or Audible subscription
• Spiritual and environmental: national park pass, meditation app, music or arts appreciation, house cleaning
• Financial: student loan repayment, financial advisor, budgeting tool
• Social and emotional: co-working space, at-home or out-of-home child care, therapy, team member meet-ups, pet insurance

Distinct use cases: Personal or professional development

<aside> 🪴 Column Adventures can and should be used on items and services that help you be a curious, well-rounded, and intellectually growing person. For example, an online class that helps you explore a hobby or adjacent expertise. Never stop learning is an operating principle of ours for a reason. Examples include:

• Conference about general civic engagement (not public information specifically)
• A series of sessions with an executive coach
• Lifetime membership to an online community centered on sharing and training the use of No-Code tools </aside>

<aside> 📈 Column Adventures should not be used on core business expenses, including courses, subscriptions, associations, or community memberships that are impactful to your day-to-day work at Column or where you represent Column in an official capacity. Instead, talk to your manager to gain buy-in and submit a regular business expense through Brex. Examples include: attending the Grace Hopper conference on behalf of our recruiting efforts, taking a Sales Impact Academy class to learn how to A/B test outreach campaigns, buying a textbook to use as a reference.

Quick thought exercise: if there's a membership association with accompanying best practices and research that introduces at least a 50% chance that we successfully make you or your vertical 10% better a year from now (not yet 30, 50, or 200% better, which is totally possible), is a couple hundred dollars a valid business expense? No question.

If it's further out on the risk curve, or less likely that there's less overtly a "Business Case", it could still be very worthwhile! That's what Column Adventures is for.

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How It Works

The Column Adventures stipend is administered through Compt. It is reimbursement-based. Here's the workflow:

1. You will receive an email invitation from Compt.
2. Log-in to Compt using Google single sign-on.
3. Click on My Perks to see the funds available for Column Adventures.
4. Outside of Compt, purchase an item or service of your choice using personal funds (e.g., purchase a ClassPass exercise pass).
5. When you're ready, log-in to Compt again.