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Okay, sure. Since we're sharing takes, here is how I read that statement: Smart people exist outside of the SFBA. (Or Seattle. Or NYC. Or London. Or ...) As s
by teirce 4y ago
Okay, sure. Since we're sharing takes, here is how I read that statement:
Smart people exist outside of the SFBA. (Or Seattle. Or NYC. Or London. Or ...)
As someone who is intimately familiar with geographic discrimination, this was nice to read. I grew up and went to school in the US bible belt. When sending out resumes, the only companies I ever heard back from (even a 'no thanks'!) were local, or cosmic luck (hired an adjacent person and reached out to me.)
- vmception 4y agoMy point is that its supposed to feel good but that verbatim reading isn't really whats happening. Over the past two years lots of people left the SFBA, Seattle, NYC etc. They didn't move to the US Bible Belt they went to islands, Miami, Austin, Southern California.... so to keep talent and get some of the other talent back, they released this statement. about nomads. It's not about people with feeble parents and health issues that get them stuck in the midwest, or those really there by even easier choice. Maybe it will never be about them. Its not charity, its a reaction to their own workforce.
- teirce 4y agoOf course it is in the company's interest. That's why they are doing it. I used my life in the bible belt as an anecdotal example, but it can apply to many places. Disparaging a company's move just because - acktualllly it benefits them - will have you hating every business on the planet. My point here is they didn't _have_ to do this. Places like Google and Apple are all but telling remote workers to kick rocks. Others like Facebook say 'be remote but we are doing CoLA.' ABNB's policy here is the most fair (and generous) out of the ones I've seen. If that attracts workers, good for them.
- vmception 4y agoI'm not disparaging it, I'm saying you're reading it wrong, following my supposition that it is easy to read this wrong.