Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
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#212,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
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#312,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
are you the type to ask that question about google and facebook too? uber is facebook minus a few years and has similiar numbers
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#412,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
They're in a lot of counties and have a massive infrastructure. This number isn't that surprising.
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#5I remember when these were called "witch-hunts", not "probes". How progressive we are.
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#6The article doesn't discuss the seniority of the fired employees. It's very hard to distinguish between scapegoating and actually working to fix the problem without that information.
The problem with Uber isn't that some employees engage in sexual harassment. The problem is that there's a culture where sexual harassment isn't taken seriously, is tolerated if the perpetrators are "high performing" in other respects, and there's common knowledge that being "high performing" covers all sorts of other ills. No amount of firing of the low-level scum that grows in this environment will fix this issue.
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#7I wonder if events like this turn Uber employees who leave around this time into a market of lemons. Obviously nobody will put on their resume that they were fired for sexual harassment so hiring managers will have to wonder if a person who left Uber recently was fed up or fired.
Seems risky to hire a recent Uber employee at this point because bringing a toxic sexist into the company can inflict massive damage.
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#812,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
Well, this is world-wide. Presumably most of them are local support and such.
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#912,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
are you the type to ask that question about google and facebook too? uber is facebook minus a few years and has similiar numbers
About Facebook, yes. Google does genuinely seem to have fingers in very many pies so their headcount is not really a surprise.
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#1012,000 employees in Uber? (I'm assuming that doesn't include the drivers). What do they do all day?
At a valuation of $6m/employee it's hard to argue with.