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Spotify has been accused of turning a blind eye to sexism in its workplace. Former sales executive Hong Perez has sued the streaming service over allegations that male execs have perpetuated systemic gender discrimination. The global head of sales reportedly provided higher compensation (including equity) to men, while multiple male executives received little punishment (and in one case, a promotion) despite sexual harassment claims.
On top of this, Perez described an overall hostile work culture, particularly from US sales head (and her boss) Brian Berner. He allegedly chose only men for drug-addled "boys' trips" to the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and 2017, excluding women who were better-qualified for the ostensibly work-oriented visits. He also purportedly scapegoated Perez after getting in trouble over a buyer deal and taking free Madison Square Garden tickets, getting her fired for conduct violations that were really his.
Pereze added that she'd raised concerns over the lack of anti-harassment action with Spotify's human resources team before she left.
In a statement, Spotify claimed it doesn't tolerate discrimination "at any level" but simultaneously insisted Perez's lawsuit was "without merit."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/19/spotify-sued-over-gender-discrimination/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 24 2018, @04:41PM (3 children)
It's not because you're not a guy and they're discriminating you.
And yet, you assume she didn't attend those events because she has a vagina
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday September 24 2018, @04:53PM (2 children)
It's a statistically safe wager if you're a betting person. Women, on average, are significantly less willing to miss home time in favor of work time. This is not an arcane secret or #FakeNews, it's public knowledge and part of what those of us who value truth have been telling people who harp on an imagined wage gap for quite some time now.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday September 24 2018, @08:17PM (1 child)
Willing to, or think they can viably make that choice without causing extremely serious problems? Those are two different things.
I'm guessing you're not married with children. That means you've never had to face the following choice: You want to come home late because of a work thing. Your spouse wants to come home late because of a work thing. Your kids have to be picked up from the babysitters by 5:30 PM, which means one of you isn't getting what you want unless you like being charged with child neglect and having your kids in foster care. Or just as likely, both of you have to work, but the kid is sick and one of you has to leave work to take the kid to the doctor. In those situations, the two of you have to decide whose career is more important, and if he's getting paid more then a rational salary-maximizing couple will choose his career over hers every time.
This creates a circular problem: She's getting paid less because the company thinks she'll be less willing to turn her family time into company time if she has kids. Meanwhile, she's less willing to turn her family time into company time because she's getting paid less because she has kids. Me, I'm sitting here thinking that most employees do at most about 25-30 hours of actual productive work, and overtime is detrimental to productivity after a couple of weeks, so why does the company have any interest whatsoever in demanding employees turn their family time into company time?
This kind of thing is why it's illegal to ask about marital status or children during job interviews, or to take those into account when making personnel decisions.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:54AM
The former is necessary for the latter. And in case you think you have it figured out, both raw hours worked statistics and preference of the workers tell the same story. Women are more likely (for any reason) to make the choice not to work over. There's no victimhood to be found here, sorry.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.