Plain English policy documents

Goal
Rewrite the company’s work from home policy to incorporate new rules and make it easier for employees to understand.

Challenge
The existing policy was riddled with jargon, was repetitive, filled with random capitalisation, and didn’t read well.

Approach
I restructured the document and rewrote it in plain English. I removed the jargon and wrote everything in the active voice, using “We” to mean the company and “You” to be the employee, the reader.

Outcome
A clear and easy to read document that the HR manager was very pleased with.