Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by stjohnswarts on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:19PM (#24645772)

So since global warming is more or less a political statement these days, would advocating for climate change mitigating philosophy being built into the company's DNA be political to you and therefore not allowed? Say it's a company that makes widgets that are completely orthogonal to climate change.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by edouard-harris on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:33PM (#24646273)

This is a great question. As posed I'd say the answer is yes, though I'd dispute the characterization of "not allowed". All I'm saying is that:

1) There exists a zero-point of politicization for this widget company;

2) In this scenario that zero-point corresponds to the decision, "do not bake climate mitigation into company's DNA"; and

3) That decision is one necessary component of the policy that maximizes the company's chance of hitting its goal.

I'm not saying anything prescriptive at all — just highlighting that tradeoffs that are being made, whether or not one is intentional in making them.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by YetAnotherNick on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:23AM (#24662898)

Yes, I would say so. eg many companies have rules against internal dating, not because they are against dating, but the possibility of problem it could cause. You can ban discussion on climate change, just because of the bitterness it could cause, not because you are taking a stand in climate change.

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