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If this generation doesn't value or have any faith in the traditional employee/employer relationship, then are new YC companies (founded by people this age) fin
by euroclydon 16y ago
If this generation doesn't value or have any faith in the traditional employee/employer relationship, then are new YC companies (founded by people this age) finding ways to create a new employee relationship structure which represents this feeling?
- c1sc0 16y agoI think that is already happening to a large extent. More and more people are founding their own little companies to fund side-projects and do consulting work. The workplace of the future may simply be a collection of loosely coupled people writing each other invoices.
- davidw 16y agoSee - Coase's Theory of the Firm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
- euroclydon 16y agoYep, but that's not what I'm asking. Listen to any Mixergy podcast, and what does every company do? Hire people. I want to know what companies founded by gen-Y folks are doing to acknowledge the new thinking about the employer/employee relationship.
- steverb 16y agoContracting. It's like a job, but with fewer false promises and expectations.
- euroclydon 16y agoI'm going to answer my own question: Finding a job isn't a problem for smart, technical people. Negotiating might be, but not finding work. In fact, they know they can find another job or even start a company if they have to, so the blogger's sentiments are irrelevant to the HN crowd.
- atomical 16y agoI disagree. What companies consider smart and technical is up for debate.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI have made it a personal goal to run my future business as flat as possible, and as close to a co-op model as possible, even to my own personal detriment. Life is a bit different than ideals, and this may not come to pass, but it's a goal.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoThose may be ideals that we value. But when those values hit the real world, you get The Twentieth Century Motor Company http://www.conservapedia.com/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Company http://www.conservapedia.com/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Company
- steveklabnik 16y agoI'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic... In the real world, we get fictional companies? I'll be first to say that modern unions are horrible, and there's lots of problems there. But there are also a lot of successful, democratically run business places.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoSorry, my wording was poor. That story is a parable, and I was trying to remind you of it, as a logical consequence of running a business as a co-op. there are also a lot of successful, democratically run business places I'm not aware of any. Can you cite examples?
- steveklabnik 16y agoHere's a list on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives#Uni... Obviously, this is not comprehensive.
- access_denied 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative