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

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by roenxi on Friday April 30, 2021 @07:51PM (#27001169)

> 6 months free money is not as much as you'd think; a new job hunt takes 3, even for talented, in-demand people.

That still looks like 3 months free money. That is a considerable offer no matter a person's politics.

Occam's razor is most of the people who left did so because they didn't like management, because that is the normal reason people leave jobs. However, it is very noticeable that if someone was looking for a reason to leave for any unrelated reason, this was the perfect opportunity.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by shkkmo on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:17PM (#27001421)

Occam's Razor is not an appropriate tool to make the point you are trying to make.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by colordrops on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:57AM (#27003265)

Not sure why you are getting down voted. Occam's Razor is heavily abused and misused in the majority of cases, treating it like some axiomatic mathematical principle and misapplying it to human behavior.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by aranchelk on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:27AM (#27003090)

Yeah, this is exactly right:

1) Employees left for ideological reasons.

2) Employees left out of self interest.

There are reasons I believe it’s predominantly 1, but neither explanation is more convoluted. Misuse of an excellent thinking tool.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by dragonwriter on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:45AM (#27005162)

Those aren’t actually alternative explanation; values define self interest, they aren’t orthogonal to it.

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