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There's always shadow policies at places like these. The buzz-word bingo of core values is for marketing and designed to captivate people (usually young) that h
by voidfunc 4y ago
There's always shadow policies at places like these. The buzz-word bingo of core values is for marketing and designed to captivate people (usually young) that haven't learned to call bullshit when they see it.
- dangus 4y agoMore specifically, shadow policies open the door up to favoritism. Another example: “unlimited” time off is granted inequitably. Some teams and individuals are more pressured than others to stay within an unwritten amount of time off.
- FBISurveillance 4y agoUnlimited vacation policy is like unlimited hosting - everyone knows there're arbitrary applied rules. Take too much and "you're not performing well enough". More to say, some studies [0] have shown that with Unlimited Paid Time Off "employees took less time off than previously, presumably leading to higher burnout rates". [0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.812187/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.8121... Overall, I think Gitlab is building a culture that _to me personally_ looks weird, you know when you talk to someone and have a gut feeling that you can't trust them? Did they fix location-based pay yet, many times discussed on HN in context of Gitlab? If not, any news on introducing Purchasing Power Parity?