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Sincere question: would you give up your right to quit "on a whim" if your employer gave up their right to fire you "on a whim"?
by usefulcat 4y ago
Sincere question: would you give up your right to quit "on a whim" if your employer gave up their right to fire you "on a whim"?
- cupofpython 4y agoI would, yes. 30 day terms would work for me as it does for many business to business agreements. I dont agree with the other commentators entitlement to 14 weeks of severance pay in any situation, however
- Afforess 4y agoYes? The power imbalance there is obvious. Employers have much greater access to wealth, capital, and lobbyists. As an individual I have no such agency. So yes, trading away risk in exchange for fixed contracts is a great deal in most circumstances. Most of modern finance exists to exchange risk for dollars in some sense.
- flatiron 4y agoi don't think that's equivalent. it's tremendously easier for a company to fill a position than a person get another position somewhere else. this is a billion+ company. some developers probably live paycheck to paycheck.
- Blahah 4y agoNo, because humans and their needs are much more important than companies and the profits of their owners.
- lkrubner 4y agoThis is not a hypothetical in Britain. Many categories of workers cannot be fired on a whim, nor can they quit on a whim. Many people prefer that trade-off. For example, in 2012, at Timeout, Aksel Van der Wal was promoted to CEO. He had previously been the CTO, and now we needed a new CTO. We made an offer to a person who had a great reputation as an engineering manager at another company. But he was on a contract he could not get out of, nor would his employer let go of him. So we had to wait 9 months, while he finished that contract, before he could join us.