[HN Gopher] SF tech company Okta, worth $14B, accused of retalia...
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       SF tech company Okta, worth $14B, accused of retaliatory layoffs
        
       Author : uladzislau
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-06-01 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
        
       | Manuel_D wrote:
       | > Wallander also said she was concerned that "two women were laid
       | off due to what was appearing more and more like gender
       | discrimination."
       | 
       | News sources tell me that Okta laid off about 400 people [1]. The
       | fact that three of them were women is not even remotely enough to
       | conclude that the layoffs were discriminatory.
       | 
       | 1. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/01/okta-to-lay-
       | off-7percent...
        
         | Affric wrote:
         | If there were layoffs coming 100% these women could have been
         | chosen as retaliatory action as part of a wider campaign of
         | discrimination. A big part of doing layoffs is finding non-
         | discriminatory reasons to lay off people you don't like. And
         | sometimes it means engineers you like and think are competent
         | will catch strays because you just need to get rid of the
         | incompetents so bad.
         | 
         | I am not saying that these women have or have not been
         | discriminated against. Just that the laying off of other
         | workers doesn't mean they haven't.
        
         | bedobi wrote:
         | Why is it that tech bros are so quick to dismiss complaints of
         | the few women who put up with our industry? Is it really so
         | hard to entertain the thought maybe there are companies out
         | there that rampantly or subtly discriminate against women? If
         | you read the article it outlines accusations of widespread
         | gender discriminations in the workplace _while these women
         | people are employees_.
        
       | justinclift wrote:
       | Uh oh. Okta seems to be having technical problems over the last
       | few days too (ie automatically logging out the account admin a
       | few seconds after logging in), and the support ticket we've filed
       | about it hasn't even been looked at. :(
        
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