{"id":1335,"date":"2016-01-16T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/2016\/01\/16\/glamorous-tech-startups-can-be-brutal-places-for-workers\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T08:01:00","slug":"glamorous-tech-startups-can-be-brutal-places-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/glamorous-tech-startups-can-be-brutal-places-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorous tech startups can be brutal places for workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;v\u00eda @tecleandor \u00ab<span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">a career as a software developer or engineer comes with no guarantee of job satisfaction.<\/span><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">\u00ab<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">Software firms are supposed to be a paradise for \u201ctalent\u201d. Not only are their workers fabulously paid, but they are showered with perks as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21688390-glamorous-tech-startups-can-be-brutal-places-workers-other-side-paradise?fsrc=rss\">The other side of paradise | The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">A survey last year of 5,000 such workers at both tech and non-tech firms, by TINYPulse, a specialist in monitoring employee satisfaction, found that many of them feel alienated, trapped, underappreciated and otherwise discombobulated. Only 19% of tech employees said they were happy in their jobs and only 17% said they felt valued in their work. In many areas they were even more discontented than non-tech workers: 36% of techies felt they had a clear career path compared with 50% of workers in areas such as marketing and finance; 28% of techies said they understand their companies\u2019 vision compared with 43% of non-techies; and 47% of techies said they had good relations with their work colleagues compared with 56% of non-techies.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">The tech economy is a ruthless meritocracy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;v\u00eda @tecleandor \u00aba career as a software developer or engineer comes with no guarantee of job satisfaction.\u00ab Software firms are supposed to be a paradise for \u201ctalent\u201d. Not only are their workers fabulously paid, but they are showered with perks as well. The other side of paradise | The Economist A survey last year of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}