“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by Kye on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:19PM (#27000828)

Quite a few who left said the policy was the reason when they posted about leaving on Twitter.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by FFRefresh on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:02PM (#27001281)

The social incentives are certainly aligned for that to be the case.

A couple scenarios:

1) Employee A leaves Basecamp and says "I'm leaving for the severance package, not the policy change", and actually takes the severance

2) Employee B leaves Basecamp and says "I'm leaving because of the policy change, not the severance", but actually takes the severance package.

Employee B will both get the social virtue points of standing up for something AND collecting on the nice severance package.

Employee A may experience social blowback if they explicitly stated they weren't incensed by the policy change.

I would expect to see more Employee B's than Employee A's publicly.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by 8note on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:29PM (#27002392)

I'd expect to see more of A than B.

Taking money that is offered is well respected across pretty well all political groups, especially those that are in charge of hiring

Taking money isn't controversial with anyone other than extreme Marxists.

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