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The Open Culture Assessment



Open to members, the Open Culture Assessment helps you understand current state of transparency, and roadmap future state.

Those that score a minimum 160pt across the 30+ components of The Open Assessment are added to our public directory, alongside some of the worlds most open, trusted employers

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The Open Culture Framework

We assess clarity across 35 assessment areas under 6 core pillars

Each assessment area carries 3 levels of achievement linked to the amount of transparency you show in that area. You'll earn corresponding points for these up to a total possible maximum of 1050. Minimum threshold for entry to our directory is 160.

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Career Clarity

The Career pillar includes 5 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 150 transparency points

  • Tenure
  • Internal Mobility
  • Attrition Rate
  • Career Paths
  • Manager Development

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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Hiring Clarity

The Hiring pillar includes 6 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 180 transparency points.

  • Hiring Process
  • Onboarding
  • Candidate Experience
  • Time to Hire
  • Org Chart
  • Financial Stability

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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Compensation Clarity

The Compensation pillar includes 6 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 180 transparency points.

  • Salary
  • Bonus
  • Equity & Shares
  • Parenthood
  • Benefits
  • Commission

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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Cultural Clarity

The Culture pillar includes 9 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 270 transparency points.

  • Manager : Employee ratio
  • Meeting philosophy
  • Employee engagement
  • Values alignment
  • Culture management
  • Team readmes
  • Decision-Making
  • Offboarding
  • Tools We Use

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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Diversity Clarity

The Diversity pillar includes 6 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 180 transparency points.

  • Leadership team
  • Team make-up
  • Anti-bias approach
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging approach
  • Gender pay gap
  • Ethnicity pay gap

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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Flex Clarity

The Flexibility pillar includes 2 achievement areas, each having 3 transparency tiers, for a total of 60 transparency points.

  • Where we work
  • When we work

Curious to see how you would score? Take the free mini-assessment to find out.

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ASSESSMENT METHOD

Assessment Method

160 point threshold

The Open Assessment helps companies tangibly measure their level of clarity & communication across 6 Pillars and 35 assessment areas.

Each of the 35 assessment areas carry a maximum weight of 30 points, giving a total possible score of 1050.

To achieve entry to our directory a company must score at least 160 on the assessment.
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Trustworthy, Multi-layer verification

Before any of the 35 assessment areas can be earned, they must be verified by Open Org.

First, a member of your team will carry out a self-assessment, after which we will work with you to visually verify these achievements (usually via public URL, or internal documentation).

As a final layer of authentication, some (not all) areas must then be verified by your employees too. This is carried out via a simple, short survey (Usually 5-7 questions)

Ready to see how Open you are?