Lanie Gardner – Dreams by Fleetwood Mac (Cover)

Ich finde es sogar besser als das Original, aber das ist natürlich Geschmackssache.

Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness

Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost

Oh, thunder only happens when it’s raining
Players only love you when they’re playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know
You’ll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision
I keep my visions to myself
But it’s only me who wants to wrap around your dreams, and
Have you any dreams you’d like to sell, dreams of loneliness?

Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
Ooh, what you lost

Thunder only happens when it’s raining
Players only love you when they’re playing
Women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

Oh, thunder only happens when it’s raining
Players only love you when they’re playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know

You’ll know
You will know
Oh-oh-oh, you’ll know

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Das Original

US-Internetfirmen bauen Personal ab, Diversityabteilungen besonders betroffen

Eine Theorie zu den Genderbeauftragten und den entsprechenden Diversitätsbeauftragten gerade amerikanischen Firmen ist, dass sie im wesentlichen Luxusausgaben sind, die eben eine bestimmte Haltung darlegen sollen, aber letztendlich keinen wirklichen Mehrwert für die Firmen darstellen.

Ein Test für diese These ist die gerade stattfindende Krise in der IT-Industrie dort. Eine Vielzahl von Techfirmen entlässt gerade viele Mitarbeiter:

When Stripe and Meta announced job cuts earlier this month, affecting 14% and 13% of their workforces, respectively, they noted that layoffs would disproportionately affect recruiting because neither company plans to hire much next year. Amazon, which plans to axe around 10,000 workers, reported the same on Monday.

At Lyft, which cut 13% of its workforce in early November, one employee on the diversity and inclusion team said most of her department had been cut, including her. Similarly, Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, saw its DEI team evaporate almost overnight. Twitter’s chief diversity officer Dalana Brand resigned within hours of Musk’s acquisition, and employees reported that the company has since dissolved its employee resource groups.

The whittling of talent-focused functions shouldn’t come as a surprise. Human capital investments do not provide an easily visible bottom-line return, especially for consumer tech companies, which prioritize engineering, research, and development.

“Even with pledges and recognition that the people experience matters, HR and D&I are often seen as pure overhead and perhaps a little bit distant from the profit-making engine,” says Julie Coffman, chief diversity officer at management consulting firm Bain.

But experts caution that this line of thinking is short-sighted. The market ebbs and flows, and when the economy recovers, companies that made deep cuts to recruitment or DEI will scramble to rebuild those teams and catch up to the talent initiatives their competitors kept in place. “If you’ve cut too much of your apparatus, [reassembling] can be a real fight,” says Coffman.

 Dei ist „Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion“. Es wäre auch das erste, was ich entlassen würde, wenn ich Personal abbauen müsste. Es wäre interessant ob das eine gewisse „Entwokung“ mit sich bringt in den jeweiligen Firmen und ob sie merken, dass das Leben dadurch eigentlich besser wird.

Natürlich besteht auch die Möglichkeit, dass sie es in besseren Zeiten direkt wieder einrichten, eben als Costly Signal ihrer moralischen Ausrichtung.