Gnome Culture
The system that encourages gnomes to ask questions, receive feedback, and communicate conflicts in a confidential and intentional space.
What is mentorship?
The type of decision needed from current partners to invite an eligible candidate into partnership.
What is unanimous?
If you forget to submit commuting time or mileage by the end of the pay period, you get this amount.
What is nothing?
When a decision affects others, this required process ensures their input is considered.
What is the Advice Process?
Employees are allowed to use shop tools for this type of work.
What are personal projects?
The newsletter that keeps gnomes up to date on current and upcoming projects, birthdays, and other interesting happenings in the TimberHomes world.
What is the biweekly woodchip?
Employees become eligible for partnership after this many years and hours of work.
What are 4 years and 6,000 hours?
Driving during the middle of your workday is clocked under this category.
What is "travel"
Scope-level decision making is solely in this labor realm.
What is overhead?
This is the maximum number of PTO hours that can roll over year to year.
What are 80 hours?
Mentors can share information from mentorship meetings only if they have this.
What is consent from the mentee?
The buy-in money for partnership goes into this account.
What is an Individual Capital Account?
A “nearby job” is defined as one this long or less, one way, from your home shop.
What is 90 minutes?
You can ask to join or leave a Scope at any time, but this moment makes it easier to speak up.
What is the annual check-in process?
PTO accrues at this rate
What is 1 hour per 26 hours worked?
The year THVT became a worker-owned company
What is 2016?
Partners will be paid this amount back in full if/when they leave the company.
What is the COLA adjustment relative to a 2022 buy-in of $10,000?
In 2025, this was the nightly stipend amount for overnight stays on faraway jobs.
What is $46 per night?
Approving new benefits and firing decisions are the responsibility of this scope.
What is the partner scope?
Temporary hires are not subject this company-wide practice.
What is a wage review?
This core value emphasizes building things that are “alive” and delightful to interact with.
What is Soulful Building Practice?
A gnome who becomes a partner in 2026 can expect to receive 100% of their patronage earned in 2026 by this year (assuming financial goals are met each year).
What is 2029?
Say you're working on a site that, according to Google Maps, is 82 minutes and 57 miles away from your home. Now say your home shop is 14 minutes and 10 miles away and you take your personal vehicle to site, but it's snowing and you stopped for coffee so it took you 95 minutes. You may add these minutes to your time sheet and be reimbursed for these miles that day.
What are 130 minutes and 100 miles?
As of 2025, there are this many scopes at TimberHomes.
What is 17?
These are the two exceptions to our rule on not giving mid-year raises.
What is the transition from a temporary to a long term position, and what is the transition to a completely different role in the company?