Number of policies in manual

The number of policies or topics in your policy manual will depend on the size and complexity of your organization.

The key concern is to define policies on matters of concern to employees and to define important information that can help the employee perform better on the job. Typically, smaller business and new organizations have fewer topics to communicate, while larger and more mature organizations generally have experienced more issues that ultimately need to be defined and communicated to employees.

Here's a suggested guideline on the number of topics for a personnel policy manual.

Number of employees to policy topics:

1 - 25?employees: 5 - 25 topics
25 - 100 employees: 20 - 35 topics
100 - 250?employees: 30 - 50 topics
250+ ?employees: 40+ topics