Compono

02/09/2026

Thinking about a full return-to-office mandate? Research links them to resignations, with senior staff leaving first. Our free calculator prices the risk for your headcount before you announce anything.

https://cmpno.to/4qPoSM5

02/09/2026

If a question is hard to read, a wrong answer stops telling you anything useful. Readability is a validity issue, not a writing preference.

Part 2 of 10 from our CEO Rudy Crous.
https://cmpno.to/4x8Hubj

01/09/2026

Rugby players from different teams, different countries - 48 hours together and they're champions.

If athletes can do that, why do organisations struggle so much to build high-performing teams?

It's a question our new partner Dan from Thirdway Advisory has been asking founders for years. And it's exactly why we love working with them.

Watch our conversation with Dan on what great hiring actually looks like — and why the pre-season matters more than the hire itself. 👇
https://cmpno.to/4x3s2gD

31/08/2026

We spent decades testing whether new drivers could work the machine. What keeps them alive is whether they can read the road.

Our COO Gigi Curley on the hazard perception test, and why it is worth keeping and worth doing a lot better.

https://cmpno.to/4zM824x

28/08/2026

Amy tried a few standard accounting jobs. She was bored within months.
Then she landed in a chaotic, fast-growth tech start-up. Redundancies, acquisitions, more redundancies. She loved it.

Our CFO on figuring out which environment actually fits your personality:
https://cmpno.to/46o5Y5o

27/08/2026

A week until the Startup People Summit, and it's filling up fast.

It's the APAC summit built for startup People leaders and founders. One virtual day on Thursday 3 September, with 35+ speakers across 30 sessions and 5 tracks. Releases One and Two have already sold out, so these are the final tickets.

Our Chief People Officer, Tamara O'Sullivan, is on the panel about the future of the CPO role, a cracker of a topic for anyone growing a people function from scratch.

Grab your final ticket now. Code 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲*𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗢 takes 𝟭𝟱% 𝗼𝗳𝗳 individual passes.

Compono keenly supports the startup community, and 3 September is yours. Get your ticket: https://cmpno.to/4cNopnF

PS. Building a startup under 50 people? We have a standing offer of 6 months free hiring and engagement software, no lock-in.

26/08/2026

Knowing what a stop sign means and knowing what to do at one are two different things. Assessments confuse them constantly.

Part 1 of 10 from our CEO Rudy Crous.
https://cmpno.to/4d3zCAy

25/08/2026

Most companies hire the same salesperson at every phase of growth. Confident. Persuasive. The Campaigner.

Campaigners matter. They open doors and turn interest into action.
But eight Campaigners isn't eight times better than one. It's a team missing seven other types of work.

Justin Coutts, our Head of Talent Solutions, on what sales work matters most now: https://cmpno.to/45MSIac

25/08/2026

Sick days, cover and lost output add up faster than most businesses realise. Our free calculator puts an annual figure on absence, and the library next to it covers presenteeism and absence patterns too.

https://cmpno.to/4xjaJcn

Put a dollar figure on the sick days, cover, and lost output that rarely make it into a single report. Free calculator, every benchmark sourced. No sign-up.

24/08/2026

We've all seen it: great customer feedback drops into a Slack channel, gets a couple of emoji reactions, and is never heard from again.

Our Senior Manager of Customer Success, David Youngman, has a simple rule: if feedback isn't tracked, it doesn't exist.

Here's how his team makes sure nothing gets lost.
https://cmpno.to/4gfQ1Eg