Tag Archives: 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 – 10:35 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

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 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

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 – 10:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Failure to Launch

Ouch.

February 13, 2011 – 1:43 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

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 – 9:43 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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 – 11:48 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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 – 12:38 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off