> LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India, according the person familiar. So, laying off people in the US and hiring in India?
I feel like if US companies are proven to off shore jobs they should take a massive tax hit the same year. Like you are required to pay 5 years worth of the salary of the job you off shored into unemployment or retraining funds.
LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
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#22Good news for those 700: because we don't have tech worker unions, they are able to individually bargain the terms of their layoff! ...right?
There are some tech worker unions (like at NYT) but not enough. A relevant book that recently came out but I have not read is You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1706 ("Treasury Department Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Report on Benefits of Unions to the U.S. Economy")
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/10/us-union-wor... ("Feel the benefit: union workers receive far better pay and rights, Congress finds")
https://newrepublic.com/post/175274/gallup-poll-two-thirds-a... ("Poll: Majority of Americans Support Unions and Support Strikes | A new Gallup poll shows Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of labor unions.")
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/27/unions-tech-industry-labor-... ("Push to unionize tech industry makes advances")
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/microsoft-union-truce-techs... ("Microsoft, meanwhile, announced last year that it would not stand in the way of any workers who wanted to unionize.")
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-first-labor-union-vid... ("Microsoft recognizes its first U.S. labor union as video game testers organize")
> Microsoft president Brad Smith has twice in recent weeks told me that Microsoft is simply doing what it sees fit for its own relationship with workers and not trying to push others. However, labor leaders see Microsoft's move as a potential model for others.
> "I won’t say that it was completely easy for Microsoft to do this but they did it," Christopher Shelton, president of Communications Workers of America, the union organizing at Activision, told Axios.
(last I checked, Microsoft owns Linkedin, but I could be mistaken; I am not uneducated on the challenges and downsides to organizing, but am also not so uneducated and inexperienced to think the power imbalance doesn't require improvement; maybe an individual can do better solo occasionally, but that's luck and not what the data shows)
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#23> LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India, according the person familiar. So, laying off people in the US and hiring in India?
Funny that some people think "if we work in the office more, companies won't outsource jobs as much".
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#24> LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India, according the person familiar. So, laying off people in the US and hiring in India?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand what the dunk is supposed to be here. Plenty of unionized companies have layoffs.
I believe the implication is that those layoffs have better overall terms.
Re: LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
#27> LinkedIn is now ramping up hiring in India, according the person familiar. So, laying off people in the US and hiring in India?
Lmao they wont allow remote work in the west but are fine with remote work elsewhere.
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#28Is it normal for a CEO like Satya Nadella not to write this email? Kind of off-putting that MSFT is keeping its hands clean here. Mohak and Tomer aren't making this decision.