Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted

Re:Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted by jsprogrammer on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:07PM (#11660867)

>If there's a regulation that your browser spend 52 hours on a web page, here's a script to make your browser browse that web page for 52 hours, clicking aimlessly among the pages. You're welcome; you've got other crap to do.

There is no such regulation. The regulation is that anyone selling insurance must spend at least 52 hours going over the technical details of their industry.

Zenefits incredibly conflated this with "only your browser needs to appear active for 52 hours".

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Re:Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted by stale2002 on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:29PM (#11661043)

That's basically what the real life effect of the regulation was though.

The "online course" that people had to take was kind of a joke, and most people in the industry think it is an outdated formality.

Crossing all your Ts and dotting you Is in this industry is of course important. Even if something is a stupid formality, you should still do it.

But let's not kid ourselves over how much "useful" information was probably in that course.

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Re:Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted by drostie on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:24PM (#11660997)

I guess "regulation" was the wrong word because that gets into the legal aspect of it; I meant purely the programming side, "we won't give you this certificate unless our web app's counter for you hits 52." "Oh, well, I'll make something that clicks your app's counter for my employees!"

Obviously, yes, this fell foul of the actual regulations, which were not "the web app's counter hits 52" but rather "you need to spend 52 hours looking at this stuff."

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