News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff. Parent comment

Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by pokstad on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:23PM (#34727505)
The problem is when you hire those high CoL areas, extract value by training others, and then discard them. This will make high CoL workers more hesitant to join a globalized employer.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by postexitus on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:46PM (#34730186)
And then what will happen?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by foobiekr on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:22PM (#34730808)
You say that like the sequence described has not been common since the nineties.

Assuming you knew that, why is now different?

And if you didn’t know that, there’s your answer.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by PoignardAzur on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:12PM (#34732371)
You say that like it's a bad thing. International corporations don't have a duty to subsidize poor Californian urbanism policies.
[ Parent | on HN ]