Re:What it was like working for Gitlab
by bruce343434 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @11:16AM
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> the company usually needs to create a subsidiary in the country of the employee, get familiar with their judicial and tax system, then there's also the issue of time zones, travel cost to company meetings, etc.
This is why women who want to get pregnant don't get hired in the USA (extra costs associated with postnatal (ETA: maternity) leave). And yet that's not okay. So your basic rule of thumb is not quite comprehensive.
Re:What it was like working for Gitlab
by deng on Sunday February 11, 2024 @03:06PM
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It's weird I have to say this, but from what I wrote it of course does NOT follow that ANYTHING that makes economic sense for a company cannot be discriminatory. That would be a dystopian rule straight out of an Ayn Rand novel.
This is why women who want to get pregnant don't get hired in the USA (extra costs associated with postnatal (ETA: maternity) leave). And yet that's not okay. So your basic rule of thumb is not quite comprehensive.