2025-02-04, 14:00–14:25, D.Aud (Main)
"People don't want to work anymore!
"We can't find good employees!"
"We'd totally want better gender parity, but we just don't get applications from women!"
If quotes like this bounce around in your organisation, it's doing something wrong. Horribly wrong.
For at least 30 years, the open source software community — and organisations that emulate its tried-and-true practices — demonstrate what you need to do in order to attract good people.
And yet, there's a million things that companies can (and do!) stuff up. Many hiring organisations cheerfully run around with a double-barrelled shotgun pressed firmly against their feet, and happily pull the trigger again and again.
In this talk, I cover some of the more-than-typical footguns that organisations employ, and what your team can do to be better.
Florian lives south of Vienna, has been using free and open source software for more than 20 years, has not worked from an office in more than 10, and is active in the OpenStack, Ceph, Python, and Open edX communities. His day job is to run the education and documentation team at Cleura, a Swedish public cloud provider. He writes and talks about distributed work and asynchronous collaboration.