Steyer Associates, Inc.

02/20/2024

ALERT: We've just been notified that scammers are again using our company name and info to reach out to talent about potential employment. If you've been contacted by a recruiter from Steyer recently, please double-check the email address domain name (we only use steyer.net) and the LinkedIn profile used; our recruiters are Genevieve Jacobsen and Kearsten White, and they are available to confirm their identities via video call if you have any question about authenticity of your interactions. We don't have much control over these spoofing scams (which are increasingly common), but we can at least spread the word. When in doubt, please reach out to us at [email protected] and we'll confirm there if you're working with our team or a fraudulent actor.

01/09/2024

We're not using this platform right now, but we'd love to be in conversation with you over on LinkedIn! You can follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/steyercontent for updates, event reminders, and more. See you there!

10/11/2023

Hello from Steyer, where we are heads down, planning for next year.

This is a process that starts in September, with our finance team crunching the actuals: what we spent this year on our business infrastructure, plus the basic economics of our client engagements—average bill rates, average pay rates, average billable hours, average “burden” (shorthand for the average per capita cost of benefits and payroll taxes).

Hello from Steyer, where we are heads down, planning for next year. This is a process that starts in September, with our finance team crunching the actuals: what we spent this year on our business infrastructure, plus the basic economics of our client engagements—average bill rates, average pay ra...

09/27/2023

In today's installment of , the bi-weekly newsletter from our CEO, Kate Walton, Kate focuses on 1) what she thinks all this LinkedIn sharing means and 2) what she recommends hiring managers/employers consider in response.

Hello from Steyer! On Monday, Business Insider published this piece by Rob Price: “It’s not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.” Price’s take is well worth reading, but in case you hit the paywall, the gist is this:

09/13/2023

"I’ve engaged with a lot of people on this (on Facebook, on LinkedIn, and privately) and here’s my take: RTO purists still want everyone back in the office as much as possible. Remote purists still think RTO purists are underestimating the long-term costs of their mandates. And most people believe that hybrid—either at the individual level or (my emerging preference, see point #10) at the workforce level—is the way to go." - Kate Gace Walton, CEO

In recent posts, I’ve shared that Steyer Content, which has been largely remote since our founding in the mid-90s, and 100% remote since 2021, remains firmly committed to remote work, despite the RTO (return to office) push surging all around us.

08/31/2023

This week's installment of , the bi-weekly newsletter from our CEO, Kate Walton, includes 10 points on RTO.

We'd love to hear your thoughts!

https://www.steyer.net/on-remote-work-part-2/

Hello from Steyer! Remember this PowerPoint slide that made the rounds in 2010, the one “explaining” the situation in Afghanistan? I created something similar last night.

08/16/2023

This installment of launches a short series about remote work. Read the newsletter from our CEO!

Hello from Steyer! As promised on LinkedIn, this installment of Workings launches a short series about remote work. As many of you know, Steyer has been largely remote since our founding in the mid 90s—one reason NPR called us in March 2020, when so many companies found themselves tasked with supp...

08/02/2023

Our CEO, Kate Walton, has returned from riding her bike across Iowa! Check out the latest installment of , Kate's bi-weekly newsletter:

Hello from Steyer! I’m back from riding my bike across Iowa, a choice so puzzling to many that, before I left, I asked Katelyn Reilly and Tony Batista—who now run all of Steyer’s day-to-day operations—for a few minutes to address the back-office team. In that meeting, I explained that my tri...

07/19/2023

Kate is headed off on vacation but would love to hear what you make of the upstream-midstream-downstream proposition upon her return. Read about it here and let us know your thoughts!

Hello from Steyer! In a few hours, I’ll be powering down, packing my bags, and making my way to Sioux City. For reasons that I hope will become clearer and clearer with every mile, I’ll be spending next week riding my bike across Iowa. Right now, I’m smack in the middle of my pre-vacation ritu...

07/10/2023

What should you do when you learn something… monstrous… about a much-beloved or ?

Is there a way to ethically consume (and even enjoy) the art of terrible people?

Is being terrible somehow (*shudder*) part of making really good art?

Join us for our next Steyer virtual book club gathering, this time to discuss Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer, on these questions and more.