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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Netflix wants managers to ask themselves whether they would rehire their current employees—and fire them, if the answer is no

Reed Hastings, co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix (Credit: Kyle Grillot—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Streaming giant Netflix is well known for some of its unusual company guidelines, for example the lack of an expense and holiday policy, and its well known 'keeper test'.

It's the latter notion that Netflix managers are being asked to revisit, after the company announced an update to its culture strategy yesterday. Netflix outlined its 'keeper test' pushes managers to ask themselves: "'If X wanted to leave, would I fight to keep them?' Or 'knowing everything I know today, would I hire X again?'"

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