2025.01.06 - Welcome 2025

Office Announcements

Welcome to the New Year 2025

New Hires

• Claudia Hoang - Executive Assistant/Office Manager - Dec 16

• Peter Fetzer - Senior Project Manager - 80 Pine - Dec 16

• Alex Palacios - Porter - Bushwick - Jan 06

• Michael Clay - Engineer 80 Pine - Jan 07

• Melvi Rivas - Handyman - Bushwick - Jan 20

New Bulletin Features

We plan to introduce a segment in the Bulletin called Employee Headlines, where each month we select a few employees to highlight, sharing details about their work, hobbies, pets, and more to help us get to know our team better. We've included a brief survey to determine who is interested in participating. While the majority decision will guide us, anyone who prefers not to be featured can opt out.

• Employee Headlines Survey (1 Question)

Upcoming Staff Trainings

We are in the process of creating a series of Staff Trainings for all team members and will keep you informed as they are completed. Stay tuned.

• Speaking of Trainings, I got a Special Request to share this Article about the AvidXchange Process. Hope it helps!

HR Notifications

We are developing the HR Department, and we ask that moving forward, any requests relating to HR be submitted by sending an email to HR@bushburg.com This includes new hire requests, employee changes, offer letters and onboarding.

Employee Handbook Updates 01/05/2025

• You can find the updates in Notion through this LINK.

Harassment & Discrimination Prevention in Justworks Deadline Overdue!

• Please be aware that the deadline to complete the mandatory Harassment & Discrimination Prevention training in Justworks has passed. Another request is being sent to everyone who did not complete their 2024 Training. Please make sure to complete it as soon as possible.

  Note: The training can be completed in 6 sections of 15 minutes each.

• Note: If you completed the training for 2024, you are compliant until 08/2025.

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New Year Holidays & Events - 2025

I've been requested to give a full list of Holidays for the year, so I am including here only the days observed by the Corporate office in 1 Penn. For a more comprehensive list dependent on Unions or Prevailing Wage Employees please go to the PTO Page in Notion.

• New Year's Day - January 1 - Office Closed

• Purim - March 13th-14th - Office Open (WFH ok)

• Passover - April 14 - Office Closed

• Passover - Chol HaMoed - April 15th-18th - Office Open (WFH ok)

• Memorial Day - May 26th - Office Closed

• Shavuot - June 1st to June 3rd - Office Closed

• Independence Day - July 4th - Office Closed

• Labor Day - September 8th - Office Closed

• Rosh Hashanah - Sept 22 at Sundown to Sept 24 - Office Closed

• Yom Kippur - October 1st at Sundown to October 2nd - Office Closed

• Sukkot - October 6th at Sundown to October 8th - Office Closed, Oct 9-13 - Office Open (WFH ok)

• Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah - October 13th Sundown to October 15th - Office Closed

• Thanksgiving - November 27th - Office Closed

• Christmas - December 25 - Office Closed

Floating Holidays - A floating holiday is a paid day off that each employee can decide when to take. The Floating Holiday Rules vary by Union or Prevailing Wage Rules. For Office Employees, it is meant to allow flexibility based on people's beliefs. These must be requested a week in advance through Justworks and you should get approval from your manager before you can take it.

PTO Etiquette - As we talk about PTO's let's have a quick reminder about PTO Etiquette.

• PTO should always be requested in Justworks and approved by your manager or HR.

  • Justworks Calendar shows people's PTO's and its good to have an understanding who is in or out that day.

• Make sure that there is someone from your team that is taking over your tasks or is ready to respond for you on any high impact items.

• Put Email Autoresponder to let people know you are not available that day.

• Enter the Out Of Office in the Google Calendar and set it up to cancel meetings when you are out.

• Update your Status in Slack - Popular Emojis for OOO are:

  • ⛔ = Out

  • 🤒 = Sick

  • 🏝️ = Vacation

• Let your team members from your department know that you are out

• Put a note on the OOO channel in Slack

• Turn off your notifications if you would prefer not to be disturbed on your day off.

If a team member is out of the office and you need something from them

• Don't Call Them

• Don't Text Them

What can you do instead?

• See if someone else from their team can help while they are gone, which is highly likely.

• Send them an email for them to answer when they are back.

• Send them a Slack for them to answer when they are back.

Is there a time when it is ok to call them or text them?

• If it's a life or death situation and they can do something about it.

• If there is a fire and they can somehow help or need to know.

• Is their birthday and you want to text them Happy Birthday.

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Speaking of Birthdays, these are this month's Birthdays

January Birthdays

From the List of People who have filled out the Birthday Announcement Authorization:

• Jared Litroff - 01/20

• Omar Gonzalez - 01/28

If you haven't done so, please fill out the 1-2 question form to give or deny consent to announce your birthday on the bulletin and Slack - Birthday Announcement Authorization 

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