Employment lawyers are helpful with, well, employment law, which companies need to comply with. They don't help with everything though. Employment lawyers don't

Employment lawyers are helpful with, well, employment law, which companies need to comply with. They don't help with everything though. Employment lawyers don't understand what I want and what trade-offs I'd be willing to make to have those things happen, nor do they, as employment lawyers, have insights into the specific trade-offs my employer "I want to have a different working arrangement" isn't a legal question. I recognize my good fortune. However, on a site called "Hacker News," I'm going to assume that most people here work in technology and have roughly similar leverage to what I have or have had in the past. If your employer doesn't treat you well and you work in software development, IT or a related field, you should leave because there are employers out there that will treat you decently. None of us are entitled to one specific job. Unions make sense in some situations. Evidently people in the technology sector have been able to work this specific question out without them.