throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: More than half of 18 to 29-year-olds in the US are living with parents
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throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Ex-Neuralink employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s pace
Unless every employee who has quit documents convincing literature they don’t get any of my attention.
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
In all this process, International students, who can’t vote are treated badly but this has always been the case, with Obama as well. Immigrants who can’t vote are the easiest barter trade.
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
Also, just like your wife is thinking for herself, ICE is thinking for itself and wants to do a good job protecting people. No evil intention, just reasonable humans trying to do their best in hard situation.
P.S : I am a former international student, and professors couldn’t care any less about international students. These ICE rules have been in place for years, and no one fought to change them until it’s actually start hit their funding.
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Facebook establishing a venture arm to invest in startups
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
throwaway_1512 | 5 years ago | on: Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19
As we enter the recession, with oil prices at all record low, driver earnings are automatically higher and riders are little more patient with sobering environment. In this mode, the support expectations are less than what they used to be before. There isn’t a desire for a super prompt response, and since support costs are linear (more reps -> faster ticket resolution), it’s quite wise to reduce the cost of both synchronous (for drivers) and asynchronous support agents (for riders).
For the recruiting, since most of hiring is either frozen or happens through referrals, outbound hiring is going to be quite minimal and you only need recruiting co-ordinators for interview scheduling and admin. It doesn’t make much sense to have so many recruiters in such environment.
For the GH hubs, if psychiatrists are moving online to telehealth, Uber green light hubs are way more simpler to be executed remotely via Zoom.
I am classifying this as a offense move, because the defense would have been to raise more money through debts and so many companies are doing it, Uber could have played the same move.
It’s pretty scary though, if this does set the precedent for other companies, unemployment recovery in HR/Support is going to very very slow.
In the contemporary world, it’s no different than Tinder/OkC, just the CSS(HTML) is different but the dynamics are the same.