We work across countries, which means contracts don’t look identical everywhere. We still aim to treat everyone the same way within the boundaries of local law. The tool we use for consistency is the Matrix Reloaded: we plot expectations at hiring, and we check reality after nine months.
This chapter covers four groups:
🇳🇱 people based in the Netherlands,
🇬🇧 people in the UK,
🇩🇪 people in Germany,
:omron: colleagues moving from Omron to Luscii.
When you join Luscii, you’re plotted on the Matrix Reloaded during hiring. That plot is the basis for the offer in your contract.
After you’ve been at Luscii for nine months, we run a compensation matrix session. We compare the result to:
the score we hired you on, or
for Omron colleagues, the Luscii offer score (see below).
What happens next depends on the country contract framework and your score.
In the Netherlands, the first contract is one year. Depending on the outcome of the matrix, the second contract is either another one-year contract or an indefinite contract.
We use temporary contracts in NL because ending employment once someone is on an indefinite contract is relatively hard under Dutch law. Temporary contracts give a fair window to verify that the expectations we set at hiring match reality, for both sides.
Timing note: the nine-month matrix session is roughly three months before the end of the first-year contract (and if you’re on a second temporary contract, we do the next one around month 21).
After the nine-month matrix (NL):