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I guess it's important to note the scale here. About a third of Basecamp employees is ~15-20 people?
by 4ndrewl 6y ago
I guess it's important to note the scale here. About a third of Basecamp employees is ~15-20 people?
- uomo 6y agoAccording to the Verge, 18 employees (out of 57 total) have tweeted that they are going to leave. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employees-memo-policy-hansson-fried-controversy https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoIf that's just the ones quitting publicly, that's a really bad sign. If I was at Basecamp right now, I'd seriously consider accepting that offer, not out of concern about the policy change but out of concern about the future of a company that lost 1/3rd of its employees.
- DiNovi 6y agoYeah I’m surprised it didn’t accelerate tbh. If I saw how Much work was about to be dumped on me I would bolt
- Quarrelsome 6y agowouldn't you just scale back commitments as a business and push back ship dates?
- ryanbrunner 6y agoTo some degree sure, that's probably inevitable, but I've never seen a situation where a significant percentage of people leave (for whatever reason) and there isn't a followup a day or two later that everyone needs to roll up their sleeves and work harder to make up for it.
- rchaud 6y agoSure, but they have outsize influence in US tech circles because of the CEO's books about org management. The company also has a philosophical opposition to venture capital and the incentives it creates. Such as the common focus on DAUs, MAUs and IPOs instead of sustainable profitablility.
- Rapzid 6y agoThey were 37 signals and like the OG thought leaders on alternative, modern software work culture.