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I liked/agreed with everything in this article except the Sunday test. I get that people need to be compatible in order to work together. I don't get why people need to want to hang out together on Sundays. It all but guarantees that people who are otherwise qualified and compatible with the team Mon-Sat will not be hired. Nothing terribly wrong with that, but why not just hire your techie frat brothers or sorority sisters?

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Yep. this part of the piece only works if the company is a cooperative, or you're just back to "get them to drink the kool-aid and sell their lives to the company" psychological slavery.

I've seen this idea work well in very young companies (2 to 10 employees). It can boost morale at that size, but it would likely feel forced beyond a handful of employees.

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