Reid Hoffman described the new Employer-Employee relationship as a “tour of duty”, or a personalized retention plan designed to give employees a concrete job objective aligned to his or her career goals. Sometimes these tours can be made for individuals on a case by case basis, other times a company has a formal program lasting for a pre-determined amount of time. These programs are often rotational to give the employee a holistic sense of how the organization functions.<p>The first structured example that comes to mind is Google’s Associate Product Manager program, which is designed for recent college grads and lets them work on a couple different teams, sometimes at different branches, over a 1-2 years.<p>What companies have established tours of duties for early, mid-level, and senior roles?<p>I’m aware that any employer can define a tour for employees, but I’m specifically looking for structured programs. I&#x27;d imagine these would only be at a late stage startup, government, or big company.<p>Would like to get a general list here, so open to non-engineering roles as well.<p>About Tours of Duty
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