They suspended spot bonuses, not your yearly bonus. These are sometimes given out at the end of a long project, they might be worth ~2k.
Still really annoying, but also kinda click-baity title.
Alphabet-owned Verily suspended spot bonuses to fund diversity initiatives
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#12I cannot help to grin the veil suspicion that this intends to be an one stop measure to say "we did all we can do, but you guys don't support it".
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#14The ultimate aim of these diversity projects is to lower labor costs - either by psychologically manipulating people into accepting lower wages, by focusing on conflict and alignment along racial lines instead of class lines, or simply to expand the available pool of workers.
No. The goal of white supremacists is to keep minority participation in high reward activities such as engineering low.
This is because mediocre white men are afraid that more talented minorities may gain access to the labor pool and they might start having to work harder for a living.
ReticentVote is fairly openly asserting that he wants less competition, because he is a mediocrity whose wages will suffer if forced to compete against minorities.
It saddens me that the very first comment here was from a white supremacist, but that is unsurprising given that Daniel Gackle works really fucking hard to ensure that HN is a "safe space" for white supremacists.
Congratulations dang, you've done it again. More bigoted white supremacists spreading their shit on your platform. The klansmen in your family would be proud of you.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very hot take. I couldn't disagree more. The ultimate aim of these diversity projects is to help members of disenfranchised communities find meaningful employment at good companies. This both strengthens the product and makes the company more attractive - implemented correctly, it can be come a powerful flywheel of benefits. Implemented incorrectly, and it can sink morale without actually empowering, supporting, or h…
How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.
1) Unemployment for software engineers is negative, there's way more room to hire skilled people before salaries become the reason people switch amongst top companies.
2) The poster I replied to stated that lower labor costs were the primary goal - and I refuted that. You seem to think I am stating something I am not.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very hot take. I couldn't disagree more. The ultimate aim of these diversity projects is to help members of disenfranchised communities find meaningful employment at good companies. This both strengthens the product and makes the company more attractive - implemented correctly, it can be come a powerful flywheel of benefits. Implemented incorrectly, and it can sink morale without actually empowering, supporting, or h…
How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.
If diversity caused lower wages then we'd see a proactive push among corporations to create inclusive cultures to invite that situation. But we don't, because it doesn't.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.
Nobody argues that. The OP said “the ultimate goal is...” and many people would argue against decreasing labor costs as the ultimate goal. More like a side effect.
So like bombing a Yemeni wedding. You want to kill one person there, but the other 50 are acceptable collateral damage.
A very American solution.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does increasing the pool of labor not decrease the price of labor? This is economics 101.
If diversity caused lower wages then we'd see a proactive push among corporations to create inclusive cultures to invite that situation. But we don't, because it doesn't.
Maybe read the article? Because they are and we are.
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#20Couldn’t the employees decide what they wanted to do with their money?