Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by ryanbrunner on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:48AM
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And also banning any DEI initiatives, banning any and all committees, and a host of other changes that essentially boil down to "shut up and do what we tell you".
Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by bartread on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:18AM
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> banning any DEI initiatives
That's not actually what they've said though, is it? They're moving responsibility for DEI back into HR (they call it People Ops)[0]. I have pretty mixed feelings on HR as a company function[1] and choice of profession, but that's far from a ban on DEI initiatives.
(I don't dispute your comment that committees have been dissolved.)
[0] The original "Changes at Basecamp" blog post literally says, "The responsibility for DEI work returns to Andrea, our head of People Ops,": https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by ryanbrunner on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:34AM
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Fair enough, banning any employee organization of DEI work (outside of the one HR person).
I think this is what the policy amounts to though, right? They're banning political discussion on their shared work Basecamp, but not anywhere else, and are even encouraging it in other private and opt-in channels, as well as employees' personal blogs, social media, etc.