My worst job experiences have been with companies or orgs that try to do the “we are family” thing - crosses boundaries and introduces too much emotion IMO. Choice tidbits from Shopify CEO’s email: - The dangers of "family thinking" are that it becomes incredibly hard to let poor performers go. - Shopify's worldview is well documented - we believe in liberal values and equality of opportunity. Sometimes we see opportunities to help nudge these causes forward. We do this because this directly helps our business and our merchants and not because of some moralistic overreach. - Beyond straight performance output, everyone that engages in endless Slack trolling, victimhood thinking, us-vs-them divisiveness, and zero sum thinking must be seen for the threat they are: they break teams. You can read the full email here: https://outline.com/Kk8huV
So they are adapting to Netflix culture
How to skip paywall
Another 💩 company
michael scott disagrees
Time for the way of the weasel.
"us vs them" mentality Ceo cancelled in 3..2..
Recent stock growth has gotten to his head. When the market fucks him, he will come around.
Stock price won’t go down much with money printer at full speed
With the exception of the 40% every year bullshit, he's spot on. Social activism in tech has gone too far and it's sucking up productivity and dividing teams
Actually convos about societal issues and politics are still had and discussed here. The COO highlighted increasing violence against Asians. Work still got done. Shopify banned Trump selling on the platform. The show still continued. Unlike companies that seek blanket bans on these topics because they’re too incompetent and lazy to figure out how to facilitate these discussions, Shopify figured out what it looks like to highlight the topics while keeping productivity and output high. And because freedom of speech is a thing, anyone who doesn’t want to engage with these topics literally never has to. It’s very possible to acknowledge, and even have a stance on, “political” matters and keep teams focused. It’s acknowledging the complexities of the world and the fact that companies and employees operate in that world. More companies should try figuring it out instead of pretending that the corporate world exists in a bubble or an overly simplistic version of the modern world. Companies that fail to figure this out have bigger issues but will predictably continue to hide behind the strawman that posits any type of discussion about what happens in the real world – the real world in which employees occupy and experience and can’t always robotically detach from when they get behind their computers – results in some immeasurable loss of output.
hi HR
This was a boring read