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"Netflix's "freedom and responsibility" culture once set it apart from the
competition, allowing it to attract the best talent; but under the leadership
of Ted Sarandos, it's rapidly falling into line with every other large
corporation as it rolls back the ground-breaking policy of unlimited parental
leave during the first year of a child's life it implemented a decade ago.
Ever since Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings stepped down as co-CEO in 2023 to
make way for the former employee of a video store chain, the company has
steadily backtracked on its parental leave policy, using vague and sometimes
contradictory internal guidelines to make the point that taking more than six
months of parental leave is a bad career move.
This regressive cultural shift is part of an explicit refocus at the company
from subscriber growth to profitability, in other words, or as Cory Doctorow
would put it, full-scale enshittification: the only stakeholders that matter
are the shareholders. A company that once attracted the bright and the best
because it treated people like adults, and saw them to respond in kind, is now
just another place to work."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
