It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers

Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by elmar on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:02AM (#15166294)

Anarcho-Syndicalism at Valve (2013)

https://www.inc.com/samuel-wagreich/the-4-billion-company-wi...

http://hbhblog.blogspot.pt/2013/03/valve-steam-anarcho-syndi...

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:05AM (#15166527)

For the record, Valve is a very different company today than it once was. It's hard to produce any reasonably backed-up insights into their modern culture.

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by elmar on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:14AM (#15166568)

More recent articles (2017)

Welcome to Flatland: Valve’s Unique Culture

https://medium.com/fluree/welcome-to-flatland-valves-unique-...

Half-life projects “ultimately just starve to death” in Valve’s company culture, says alleged insider

https://www.vg247.com/2017/01/12/half-life-projects-ultimate...

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:21AM (#15166597)

But I don't think this is based on any new evidence of what their culture is like. The only source they mention is the (old) employee handbook.

Edit: the parent comment added the second link in an edit.

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by elmar on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:53AM (#15166990)

> Half-life projects “ultimately just starve to death” in Valve’s company culture, says alleged insider

Looks like this organisation structure favors some type of projects and neglects others.

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by Sir_Cmpwn on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:57AM (#15167008)

I'm not sure if that structure even still exists. The article mentions that half life projects failed to gain support from "upper echelons", a group that does not exist under the alledged organizational structure.

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Re:It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers by 0xcde4c3db on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:54AM (#15168612)

I've seen other allegations that it's nominally flat, but informally hierarchical in practice. There are cliques that each have their leader, and you can't get anything done without having influence within the social circle of leaders.

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