The article didn’t do a very good job providing evidence to make the case for its premise that big tech is trying to keep employees afraid. Overall I think the

The article didn’t do a very good job providing evidence to make the case for its premise that big tech is trying to keep employees afraid. Overall I think the article itself was a poorly written screed that just threw in lots of anecdotes and assertions but didn’t really have any meat to it. For example, what do climate change etc have to do with unionization? Unions are supposed to be vehicles for worker protections, not ESG. Also, the simple answer is, that shareholders, particularly large influential institutional shareholders, are demanding unreasonable and unsustainable quarterly growth from tech esp as the rest of the economy is sliding into recession. The short term shortsighted way to do that is to cut ongoing costs, and employees are the biggest cost in that bucket at tech companies. No need for a conspiracy when everything is pretty transparent already.