>“ Most of the layoffs will take place in September and those affected will have the opportunity to relocate and stay with the San Francisco-based company.”
Is that not true? If it is true, how do you relocate a remote worker?
On a more serious note, I know a few companies who do treat their tech people like disposable inventory, on par with the lower-prestige roles, and it works out just fine for them. They don't get highly motivated world-class talent, but they don't need that sort of talent; just someone to take care of their relatively modest IT/dev needs. It's not very efficient across a lot of metrics, but low salaries probably compensate for that.
This seems to be a trend across all sorts of industries, less and less jobs that pay well, less employees that get coddled and treated well, commoditize the hell out of every last role etc. – just because it's not a big thing in much of tech yet probably doesn't mean it's an impossibility.
I think that day is closer than many imagine. If I take out well paying / no physical labor part I am as a Jira slave and daily standup chump are lot closer to warehouse worker than silicon valley type pampered engineer.
A company purpose is to make money, not to take care of its employees.
To think that less than 4 months ago People were ridiculing Andrew Yang and other proponents of UBI. I admit having it be, initially anyway, State sanctioned bothers me a great deal; but the fact is gainful employment is no longer a reliable aspect of modern Life for many in Society. This will continue to cut deeper and deeper, and for anyone not paying attention these protests and riots in the US have a much deeper sense of resentment than just Police Brutality against black males. And it's felt throughout the spectrum of underemployed, highly indebted underclass. Its like the bottled and pent up anger from the Occupy movement coming back.
In many ways this reminds me of the London Riots of 2011, when London police killed a young black male named Mark Duggan [1] and it exposed a myriad of sociological, and socio-economic issues that quite frankly still remain to this day.
1: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/three-riot-lesson...
That aside, the idea that you can finance life in the highest cost living areas of the USA as a “stylist” (picking items for a clothing subscription) is lunacy. Clearly that work can be done anywhere and it’s only a matter of time till it’s pushed to the lowest cost areas. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cost of such labor goes to near zero as they attempt to start “paying” people with publicity instead.
It's in quotes with an inline description because, while it's the actual job title for the positions in question, it's also a common English word that in most circles would refer to a "hair stylist".
Ascribing negative intentions to minor punctuation and making up biographies about your fellow commentators says more about your bad taste and biases than mine.
I suppose you think it’s lunacy that hair dressers think they can live in the city as well.
Why not just offer a straight salary cut, since they are already, as you say...remote?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2019/10/22/now-calif...
https://moskowitzllp.com/leaving-california-and-the-franchis...