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Members have to pay 1% of their salary to be in it, which is very union-like. I imagine if they dropped the pretense of a union and it was just a non-profit gro
by cactus2093 6y ago
Members have to pay 1% of their salary to be in it, which is very union-like. I imagine if they dropped the pretense of a union and it was just a non-profit group, they would have a hard time getting that big of a donation from each member.
Maybe I'm just being too cynical, but I can't help think this group is playing into the current trendiness of progressive issues, and some number of well-off Googlers are joining because ~$2000 a year is insignificant to them and they support the cause of unions in general even though they don't personally need any of the protections a typical union offers. Not to say this is necessarily a bad thing, non-profits need to market themselves somehow and if they accomplish positive change in Google's policies this way then great.
- est31 6y agoIt contains about 0.5% of the Gogle proper employees or about 700 people. If it were a Google product, it would have been canned a long time ago with that tiny market share.
- starclerk 6y ago0.5% of a big number is a big number. If it were a Google product, I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to get O(10s of millions) users in the first week (or 0.5% of the billions of existing users).
- compiler-guy 6y agoOnly to shut it down a year or two later when growth stalled at 0.6%, as it nearly always does.
- armoredkitten 6y agoIt's also a week old. Even Google doesn't can things that quickly.
- est31 6y agoFair point. I was actually joking here :).
- CydeWeys 6y ago> It contains about 0.5% (Edit: actually 0.05%, off by a digit) Your original figure of 0.5% was correct and your edit is wrong.
- est31 6y agoThanks for pointing out! Confirmed and removed it. FTR: total employee number is 130k. 700/130000 = 0.054
- whimsicalism 6y agoTwo weeks ago or whenever people were making fun of it for having only 200. Seems like it is growing rapidly?