[vin047]

Agree with you on the first part, but not sure on the second – if skilled employees leave (especially for other competing social media apps) Facebook will start to lag. Even with its core loyal employees Facebook can’t compete if they don’t retain skilled workers.

[ThrowawayR2]

Facebook has enough momentum that not having the best and brightest probably wouldn't slow them down. And, let's face it, for what Facebook pays, there are still plenty of skilled people who don't favor one side or the other who would happily take their money.

[vin047]

Momentum would keep them going for a long time but they’d eventually stagnate if they lost the majority of their best workers – look at other once dominant tech companies who can longer get the best talent, even with their deep pockets. This doesn’t mean they’d collapse completely of course.

I realise this is just a hypothetical though – highly unlikely since it would require the top employees leaving en masse.

[iateanapple]

> Even with its core loyal employees Facebook can’t compete if they don’t retain skilled workers.

There is an abundance of skilled workers who don’t care about this boycott. I personally know quite a few skilled devs who think Zuckerberg taking a stand is a reason to work for Facebook.

[vin047]

Well yeah but that would be Facebook retaining/gaining skilled employees, not losing them.

If, hypothetically, many skilled workers did care (and didn’t like Zuckerberg’s stance) then they’d lose them, which would impact their performance especially against competitors.

I appreciate that this is highly unlikely to happen since, as you said, many don’t care and in fact see this as a positive. I was just stating that I object to the idea that employees can’t have an impact – they can, in sufficient number. We just need to get them to care (lol).