{"id":296,"date":"2020-03-23T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/?p=296"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:22:13","slug":"mozillians-use-expense-reimbursement-to-care-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/mozillians-use-expense-reimbursement-to-care-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozillians Use Expense Reimbursement to Care for Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/working-from-home-at-mozilla\/\">we shared<\/a> how our staff is helping one another out during the Coronavirus crisis. And on March 13, Mozilla authorized $1,000 reimbursable expenses for employees to use at their discretion. The goal: to help us adjust to working from home, and to organize for changes to come in a scenario of extreme self-isolation. And while the money can be spent on things like IT equipment, furniture or childcare, several Mozillians have instead decided to use the reimbursement to support those around them: their families and their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Helping immediate friends and family pay their bills is a big theme. One colleague, in particular, decided to help a friend who just lost her job (and is pregnant). Others want to help stock groceries and pay bills for family members who have stopped working.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us are thinking about others in the community who are financially impacted by the social distancing, including those working in the service, entertainment, events and airport industries, and other small business owners. One colleague suggested leaving large tips:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-299 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_2020-03-23-How-Mozillians-are-helping-those-around-them-1-300x114.png\" alt=\"screenshot of a Slack conversation. Jen Simmons slacked: &quot;Give it in tips to the small businesses and workers in your community that are going to be hardest hit by all this.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_2020-03-23-How-Mozillians-are-helping-those-around-them-1-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/Screenshot_2020-03-23-How-Mozillians-are-helping-those-around-them-1.png 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also thinking about the organizations that have long helped the most vulnerable among us: food banks, elderly support organizations, women\u2019s shelters, volunteer fire departments, free meal school programs, and local churches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-301 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/travis-long-300x257.png\" alt=\"screenshot of a Slack conversation. Travis Long slacked: &quot;Our local Meals-on-Wheels will start delivering other necessities to local seniors to keep them from having to get out and about.&quot; Emily McMinn replied: &quot; Yeah that gave me some warm fuzzies :heart: I was thinking of finding a local food back or meal delivery to donate to.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/travis-long-300x257.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/travis-long.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-300 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/kim-moir-300x212.png\" alt=\"screenshot of a Slack conversation. Kim Moir slacked: &quot;Our local food bank announced they are seeing a huge increase in need for cash donations because so many people have been suddenly laid off. Another idea is women's shelters (domestic violence increases in these types of situations), homeless shelters or charities that deliver meals to seniors.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/kim-moir-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/kim-moir.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-302 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/alice-rhee-300x140.png\" alt=\"screenshot of a Slack conversation. Alice Rhee slacked: &quot;like others who are considering flexing this to others - I'm considering donating to my church, which is the central hub for many community-support initiatives (food bank, homeless outreach, gathering spaces for AA\/NA, elder support, etc.)&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/alice-rhee-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/files\/2020\/03\/alice-rhee.png 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are all great ideas and I\u2019m glad that we are able to support all of them through this expense reimbursement. We\u2019ve always said we put people first at Mozilla and it\u2019s heartening to see how these ideas are proving that.<\/p>\n<p>One common thread some observed is how privileged we feel to have a secure job in the tech industry and how much we want to help those that are most impacted by the situation and are not able to just \u201csit it out.\u201d Seeing these conversations makes me proud to be a Mozillian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: the feature image at the top of the post was taken in Berlin during a company All-Hands week-long retreat in late January 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week we shared how our staff is helping one another out during the Coronavirus crisis. And on March 13, Mozilla authorized $1,000 reimbursable expenses for employees to use &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/mozillians-use-expense-reimbursement-to-care-for-others\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1782,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327152,30710],"tags":[],"coauthors":[451105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}