You are a VP of Sales at a $5-$year$-$old software as a service $($SaaS$)$ company that has experienced rapid growth in the past year. Up until this point, the organization has boasted of a $$strong startup culture$$ in which employee policies, procedures, and operations were much more fluid in nature and decisions about employee experience were made on an organic basis. Human Resources functions were handled by individual departments, which resulted in varied experiences for employees across the organization.

As you have experienced growth, your executive and management leadership team has become cognizant of the reality that you need more structure in place when it comes to your internal staff policies and practices. You are more organizationally complex now, more hierarchical in structure, and in need of some consistency and stability across the board.

The CEO of your organization has formed an $$Employee Experience and Internal Policy Task Force$$ that is charged with facilitating the development of new, internal staff policy proposals that will be reviewed by executive leadership and other stakeholders. Task members have been asked to research and present on policies or practices that would benefit the entire staff and support the organization$$s continued growth.

Specifically, each task member will $(1)$ draft and send a persuasive memo about their policy proposal, and $(2)$ deliver a $3-5-$minute persuasive policy presentation to the entire task force. Following each presentation, all task force members will vote on whether to move forward with the policy proposal, a step that includes involving the entire executive leadership team.

You have been placed on the task force because of your strong management skills and your prior experience at a large organization that employed hybrid workers, which are a significant portion of your current workforce. You$$re excited to be included because you$$ve been waiting for the right opportunity to propose a policy or practice that you believe is crucial for your organization to adopt.

You will need to analyze this situation and identify an internal staff policy, procedure, or practice that you would like to propose to the task force. You will be assessed on your ability to build a compelling argument for implementing this new internal policy, while also overcoming the objections and hesitations that might be felt or expressed by your fellow task$-$force members.