You signed the ORIGIN Culture and Code of Conduct on your first day. Most people never open it again. These are the parts that matter most.
What you signed
The Code is the rule book behind our values. Most of it is common sense written down, so that nobody has to guess. It applies by contract type, so check which parts apply to yours: full time, part time, hourly or project based.
What stays inside ORIGIN
Client information, our plans, our methods and anything about money are confidential, during your time here and after it.
Work you create with ORIGIN's tools, time or resources belongs to ORIGIN.
When you leave, every file comes off your devices within 48 hours, and you confirm it in writing.
Other work
If something goes wrong
There are three steps
- 1A spoken warningthat is recorded
- 2A written warningon your file
- 3The end of your contract
Your right of reply
If you believe a warning is wrong, you can dispute it in writing with People & Culture within 48 hours. A panel of your line manager, People & Culture and one senior team member decides within seven working days.
What skips the steps
Five things are so serious that they skip the steps. They protect you as much as they bind you:
Gaslighting means making someone doubt what they know to be true.
A former colleague asks what ORIGIN charged a client, "just out of curiosity". What do you do?
It is confidential, now and after you leave.
The Code is signed on day one and applies from day one. Read the parts for your contract.
Time, deadlines and money
Your time
Your timesheet
- 1You record your working hours in a timesheet. It is sent every week, on the last working day.
- 2Log your time daily, so the week's record is accurate.
- 3Your line manager approves it.
Deadlines
To move a deadline, ask your line manager at least 24 hours before it falls due. They approve the new date in Asana.
The rule is about silence: three deadlines missed in three months, without that conversation, ends the contract.
Raising a risk early is ownership, not failure. The breach is the silence, not the slip.
If you speak up in time, you have done the right thing.
Expenses
Four steps, in this order
- 1Before you spend, get your line manager's approval. A spoken yes is enough.
- 2Ask for the receipt in ORIGIN's name.
- 3Within 48 hours, email the receipt to your line manager, copying the Finance Manager and the Accountant. Those are job titles; their team is the Cashflow Team.
- 4The Head of Cashflow gives the final approval, and you are paid back within 30 days.
No approval before, or no receipt after, means the expense is not paid back.
On Monday you see that Thursday's deadline is at risk. When do you message your line manager?
24 hours is the least you give. The real rule is "as soon as you know".
Log daily, speak up early, and ask before you spend.
Before you move on
Three questions before you move on. Type your answer, send it, then check it.
Your answers stay on this device.1How do you move a deadline?
The answerAsk your line manager at least 24 hours before it falls due. They approve the new date in Asana.
2What must happen before you spend, and after?
The answerYour line manager's approval before. The receipt, in ORIGIN's name, emailed within 48 hours after.
3You believe a warning is wrong. What can you do?
The answerDispute it in writing with People & Culture within 48 hours.
Signed on day one. Lived every day.
Next: your first 90 days.