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Nothing says "building a homogenous culture that rejects diversity" quite like dedicating office space to the founder's hobby. It just screams "we want people l
by onion2k 5y ago
Nothing says "building a homogenous culture that rejects diversity" quite like dedicating office space to the founder's hobby. It just screams "we want people like us" rather than "we want people who are awesome".
- vixen99 5y ago'A simple piece of exercise equipment could possibly down the line cause someone to choose not to join the company. We're glad that we talked to our team about it and in the end made the decision to leave the weight rack out of the office. The next challenge for us is to figure out how to best support everyone to live healthier lives while we're remote! ' Evidently a dreadful company.
- arein3 5y agoso dillation chambers are ok but weight racks are not
- jsiepkes 5y agoYou could apply that argument to about anything that isn't standard office furniture; Arcade machine, ping pong table, etc.
- hackerman_404 5y agoI honestly don't understand why diversity is advertised as best thing ever for every company. It's like once there is mathematically perfect division of people from each different culture and background some magical shangri-la is achieved and we all sing songs and live ever after happily. What if you just want a dude bro themed company?
- onion2k 5y agoBuilding software is about asking and answering questions. If you have a company full of the same sort of people you'll only get one set of questions and answers. If you have a diverse range of people you'll get more, different questions and answers. That means you cover more edge cases, more things that concern different people, more stuff that just doesn't occur to dude bros. Simply put, diverse teams make better software that works for more people. You can sell to more people. You make more profit.