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Disclaimer: I work at Google, but this kind of stories reach me mostly via memes. Google has about 100k employees and this kind of shite seems to happen a coup
by lrem 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google, but this kind of stories reach me mostly via memes.
Google has about 100k employees and this kind of shite seems to happen a couple times a year. Let's assume once a month. This gives an incidence rate of 0.000012 per person per year. Meaning that at 100 employees, plugging into [1], after a 100 year career in a place as bad as Google you would have a 10% chance of that happening at your company.
Assuming only 1% of what happened is known, you would get a 36% chance.
[1]: https://planetcalc.com/5390/ https://planetcalc.com/5390/
- lazyasciiart 7y agoWhat's the incidence rate per pregnancy?
- lrem 7y agoThat is a very good question. At some point the board disclosed the maternity benefits rate, I'll see if I can find it. But my guess would be on the "it's fine" side, this is the only one of the dozens of scandals I remember that involved a discriminated pregnant woman.
- lrem 7y agoMy search-fu failed me here, no data has been found.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoHandwaving all of this for fun: 1/3 of employees are women, and let's say they are all millennials for ease of calculation. In 2016 there were about 2 million births among 40 millions millennial women, so 5% were pregnant. I'm going to arbitrarily halve that for Google employees, because educational achievement/income both correlate with lower birth rates. 2.5% of 1/3 approximately says 1% of Google employees are pregnant each year, or 1000 people. So out of 3000 pregnancies in the last few years, you've heard of this incident, so that's 1% of the 100 incidents, or 1/30 pregnant women at Google experiencing discrimination. Sounds pretty high - if you were in a "new mothers" group at Google with 100 women who'd recently been pregnant, three of them would have stories like this.