What a weird article. He says companies are desperate to hire talent (not true) and then gives three examples of perks, the first two of which are prostitution and gambling, both of which are done as one-off events, and neither of which are perks in any reasonable interpretation of the concept.
The third example, of entrepreneurship classes, is not unreasonable, but even better than that would be dropping the clauses on contracts that seize ownership of everything employees do on side projects in their own time using their own equipment, as well as the insane and common contract clauses claiming ownership of work done for so many months after ones leaves. I doubt that is going to happen any time soon, that seems to be a sacred clause to many companies. So instead they offer entrepreneurship classes, with the obvious understanding that should you actually act on them and start a side project you will be sued into oblivion.
Yeah. I mean, pay people well, give them something fun to work on, treat them like people, and let them go home on time - it should be enough.
There are definitely other industries (eg. big firm law, finance) where the bigger the hiring perks, the shittier the job - is this really where we want tech to go?
I like the graph myself (it was snagged from someone's flickr account according to the credits). The second section does show the average salaries for various positions in and out of the Valley, and the third position shows that those Valley salaries don't even remotely start to compensate for the higher cost of living there, which means that Valley salaries are not only not really competitive at all, but are underpaid by a considerable margin. Cool graph for showing that.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 23.6 ms ] threadThe third example, of entrepreneurship classes, is not unreasonable, but even better than that would be dropping the clauses on contracts that seize ownership of everything employees do on side projects in their own time using their own equipment, as well as the insane and common contract clauses claiming ownership of work done for so many months after ones leaves. I doubt that is going to happen any time soon, that seems to be a sacred clause to many companies. So instead they offer entrepreneurship classes, with the obvious understanding that should you actually act on them and start a side project you will be sued into oblivion.
There are definitely other industries (eg. big firm law, finance) where the bigger the hiring perks, the shittier the job - is this really where we want tech to go?