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Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of private companies that are shitty too. It definitely helps being private (and maybe is a requirement?), but you also have to have the right owners for private companies to be good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For sure... Just one more reason to adopt co-determination laws like those in Germany.

Public or private, if the board of the company actually contained literal workers, it could make things so much better.