Again I don’t get this. 1/3 of basecamp left. They arw basecamp. Basecamp are the people who are leaving! Lol

The outrage crowd is not the leaving basecampers but all the people spitting acid on the company online.

1) They were heavily incentivized for leaving. If you even considered a carreer move, the 6 month severance is your call to action.

2) I don't know that them leaving is so bad. They disagree, they leave (with generous compensation), not a huge issue in my book. Everybody is being treated fairly here, it seems. But for some reason, people have to insist that basecamp is evil, while to me it looks like they're going above and beyond the call of duty to treat their employees right.

Then what of the ⅔ who stayed?

They breathe a sigh of relief as the majority of toxicity at the company has up and left overnight.

Exactly - a short, sharp shock of 1 week or so, and then the most disruptive people are gone and you begin to rebuild the culture.

Yup, I already threw my email in on their site for open positions. Sounds like it’s about to be an amazing place to work.

This is such an awful disrespectful comment. Some of the people leaving are veterans who have been working there for 15 years. How can you say such unsubstantiated nonsense?

Keyword: "some".

Many who left have been there for 4+ years upwards of 15, an unheard of tenure in tech