Hmm, I understand your hesitation. Treehouse is famous for their "awesome" work/life balance perks, and a lot of that has rippled through the tech scene. Clearl

Hmm, I understand your hesitation. Treehouse is famous for their "awesome" work/life balance perks, and a lot of that has rippled through the tech scene. Clearly, he's seen issues with them. He never called employees lazy. Treehouse went through layoffs, and they felt it was unfair to lay off 22 people and still let everyone else take Fridays off. They also removed their "no managers" rule. It sucks, but a company has to make money to pay people... and if this perk was keeping people from doing their best work, Treehouse had no choice but to fix it. It's not like he's forcing everyone to work 60 hours; he's just admitting his perks didn't work. I think it's good that he's walking back things he no longer stands by, rather than leading other companies down a bad path.