> This is astounding to me. I don’t know if Americans realize how this makes SV look…essentially the companies are playing nanny to grown ass adults. First the schools tell them what to think and college teaches them how to think…and then employers direct them how to live their lives.

>This is the direct result of parenting outsourced to the state/schools/employers. It’s over for America. As a woman, I am horrified that an employer has any..ANY OPINION AT ALL about women’s reproductive decisions. We are not children. We are adults with our own uteruses.

>A govt or educational institute or religion or employer should have NO opinion or thoughts about personal adult choices. This kind of interference cuts both ways.

Imagine some companies offer time off for pregnancy and childcare! Horrifying! How morally blind Americans must appear to their EU partners.

I think they expect to lose some talented employees who may look to move away. They are offering to help those who want to move to not loose talent. I don’t see anything else. Maybe they are factually wrong and no one wants to move away and the program is worthless, but maybe they are no wrong and they keep employees that otherwise they would need to retrain. I don’t see nannies here.

How are they playing the nanny?

Its in Salesforce’s best interest to relocate employees who might otherwise quit to move to different states.

Corporations are just a bunch of people working together and wielding economic resources equal to small nation states. Of course you use those resources to help and protect each other.

It’s very normal for companies to evacuate their employees from hostile situations. Is that playing nanny?

Why is it wrong for a corporation to support or denounce state laws that has nothing to do with their business?? How can anyone not see that this is a double edged sword??

Because that’s how we will end up being ruled and controlled by corporations who will now start to influence legislation.

Because it would take half a second for this to flip and work against us. Not necessarily wrt abortion laws. Abortion laws are low hanging fruit. What else will salesforce influence or support or interfere with to retain its talent?

Not to mention..the strength of a generation that flees any situation that might be uncomfortable or unacceptable. No one digs in their heels and fights for what they believe. Why? Because the current generation have no beliefs. They never had an opportunity to form any thoughts or opinions as they have been nannied by state run schools who made all their decisions by pushing parents out of parenting responsibilities and duties. Hence they flee.

And corporations which have taken the baton from state run schools now herd them and then influence legislation. So now the loop is complete. America is toast.