I’m getting a strong indication that another cultural shift is taking place at work and with leaders, between nurturing, inclusive environments to enforced burnout, leave your politics out of it, you’re either grinding 110% or you’re underachieving places.
For a lot of reasons, it sucks. But I do know that some companies only committed to nurturing environments in word only, mostly because they had to.
Now with a recession and many leaders eager to emulate Elon’s cruel style, their true motivations seem to be showing themselves.
I believe this shift, while very unpleasant, will prove the hypothesis that kind leaders and cultures will win in the end. Or tech will eat itself and we’ll just move onto something else. But I believe kindness is and always was the key here.
@josh The desire to create code sweatshops is tremendous, but the industry is too far from that level of commoditization yet.
Knowledge workers are very hard to keep productive if you're harassing them constantly, and there is still a high enough demand for tech people compared to a limited supply, so they have a reasonable amount of employment options.
