Tag: employment

Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
September 29, 2011
NYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion
We have to avoid being like Europe so we’ll do what Europe did but it’ll turn out differently for us.
March 24, 2011
NYTimes.com – Public Workers in Wisconsin Protest Plan to Cut Benefits
The second part doesn’t make a lot of sense as far as a partial solution to solving the deficit, the collective bargaining wouldn’t reduce any current state payments to employees.
February 16, 2011
NYTimes.com – Failure to Launch
Ouch.
February 13, 2011
NYTimes.com – American Medical Response Settles Facebook Firing Case
Good decision employees should be able to comment in their private off time as publicly as they wish about their company (minus releasing trade secrets and such).
February 10, 2011
NYTimes.com – Deep Hole Economics
Pretty simple, jobs, jobs and more jobs should be the primary priority of any government in this situation.
January 2, 2011
NYTimes.com – O’Donnell’s Magic Turns Loss into Win
How is it good for tax breaks to be extended that mostly benefit the wealthy good and extending unemployment benefits so people don’t end up on the street a tragedy?
December 9, 2010
NYTimes.com – German Law Would Limit Facebook’s Use in Hiring
Germany has proposed to limit what social networking sites employers can review.
August 28, 2010
NYTimes.com – Defining Prosperity Down
Krugman once again with arguing forcefully and eloquently for some rational decision making on the part of economic policy.
August 2, 2010
The Non-Programming Programmer – Coding Horror
Why can’t people applying to fulfill programming positions complete even basic and simple programs.
March 19, 2010