india sneezes
India Sneezes - Madhu Menon discusses the rather cold way that CNET India fired their entire staff this week. This was the same day that I remarked on the strange way that CNET USA ran a sort of emotional dirge for employees laid-off at San Jose Mercury News. Maybe Jai Singh ran this article to divert attention from the firings taking place within his own organization? One interesting note about both the SJ Mercury and CNET is the apparent high premium that both organizations placed on being a “special place to work”, and “a family; a community”. What ever happened to being the best and shaming your rivals with the accuracy of your reporting? But despite talk in India of H1-B visas drying up, the demand for good tech people will stay very high, and the sort of people who feel threatened by smart foreign workers are not the sort who hold much sway in development organizations. News is that Rediff will be taking over another portal company, so things are still moving.