๐Ÿ’” ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋‚™ํƒœ ๊ธˆ์ง€๋ฒ• ์ดํ›„ ๋ฒ„๋ธ”์ด 3๋ถ„์˜ 1 ์ง์›์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆผ ๐Ÿ’”

๋ฒ„๋ถˆ์€ ๋…ผ๋ž€์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚™ํƒœ๋ฒ• SB 8 (์ƒ์› ๋ฒ•์•ˆ 8ํ˜ธ)์ด ํ†ต๊ณผ๋œ ์ดํ›„ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ ๊ทผ๋กœ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ด 33% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฒ•์€ 'ํ•˜ํŠธ๋น„ํŠธ' ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Bumble saw a 33% drop in its Texas employees following the enforcement of the restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion bill. | ENBLE

Bumble, the popular dating app, has taken a major hit after the passing of the controversial abortion law in Texas. Since the implementation of the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8, over a year ago, Bumble has seen a significant decline in its Texas workforce. According to Elizabeth Monteleone, Bumbleโ€™s Interim General Counsel, who spoke at the recent SXSW conference, the company has lost about a third of its employees in Texas.

At the conference panel on the โ€œhealthcare crisis in Post-Roe America,โ€ women who had sued or spoken out against the involvement of politicians in healthcare decisions shared their stories. Monteleone revealed that Bumble is now allowing employees to work remotely and is no longer requiring them to be based in Austin, where the company is headquartered.

While not all departures may be directly linked to the abortion law, Monteleone suggested that Bumbleโ€™s employees may also be uncomfortable with several other Texas laws and proposed laws that do not align with their values and well-being. Bumble has been vocal about its support for reproductive rights and has become the first business to join an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the Texas abortion law.

The lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, argues that the law endangers the lives of pregnant women by intimidating doctors who may offer abortion care. Doctors risk losing their licenses or incurring hefty fines and prison terms. Women involved in the case are suing the state for being forced to carry out pregnancies despite the risks to their health. Some have had to travel out of state to access healthcare, increasing their risks. The lawsuit also highlights how Texas doctors feel hindered in practicing medicine.

Apart from the political and emotional toll these laws have on women, Monteleone stressed the negative impact on businesses. Bumbleโ€™s lawyer emphasized the increased costs involved in attracting and retaining talent in Texas and providing healthcare benefits to employees. The signing of the amicus brief by Bumble has encouraged other businesses in Texas, including Match Group and SXSW, to also show their support. These companies fear similar challenges in attracting and retaining talent.

Location is a critical consideration for prospective employees when accepting or staying in a job, considering the effect of the abortion law on their lives and overall well-being. In response to the law, Bumble has enhanced its healthcare benefits to cover the full spectrum of reproductive rights, including abortion, IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and gender-affirming care. Other companies have taken similar steps, despite the costs involved.

These issues come at a challenging time for Bumble, as the company has been struggling with growth and appealing to a younger audience. The dating app reported a weak Q4, with a $32 million net loss and $273.6 million in revenue. Bumble recently had to let go of 350 employees and underwent significant organizational shifts, including the appointment of a new CEO, Lidiane Jones.

๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Q&A: What Readers Want to Know ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Q: What is the Texas Heartbeat Act? A: The Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8, is a controversial abortion law implemented in Texas over a year ago. It bans abortions once cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around six weeks, before many women even realize they are pregnant.

Q: How does the Texas abortion law affect businesses like Bumble? A: The Texas abortion law has a direct impact on businesses by influencing their ability to attract and retain talent. Prospective employees consider location and may be deterred from accepting or staying in a job if they disagree with the stateโ€™s laws. This poses challenges for businesses and their growth.

Q: How has Bumble responded to the Texas abortion law? A: Bumble has been vocal about its support for reproductive rights and has become the first business to join an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against the Texas abortion law. The company has also enhanced its healthcare benefits to cover the full spectrum of reproductive rights, including abortion, IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and gender-affirming care.

Q: Are other companies in Texas showing support against the abortion law? A: Yes, after Bumble signed the amicus brief, other businesses in Texas, including Match Group and SXSW, have also shown their support against the abortion law. These companies are concerned about the potential challenges in attracting and retaining talent due to the impact of the law.

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Q: ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋‚™ํƒœ๋ฒ•์ด Bumble์˜ ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋‚˜์š”? A: ๋‚™ํƒœ๋ฒ• ์‹œํ–‰ ์ดํ›„ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค์—์„œ Bumble์˜ ์ง์› ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 1/3 ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด์ง์ด ์˜ค์ง ์ด ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์ด๋‚˜ ์ œ์•ˆ๋œ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์ด Bumble๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์— ๋ฏธ์นœ ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์ „๋ง ๐Ÿš€

๐Ÿš€ ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์ „๋ง ๐Ÿš€

ํ…์‚ฌ์Šค ๋‚™ํƒœ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•œ Bumble๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๊ณผ ์ง„๋ณด์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ณ„์†๋˜๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง์› ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋ฐ ์ •์น˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ธ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ์ทจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚™ํƒœ๋ฒ•์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ƒ์‹๊ถŒ ๋ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ถŒ์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ์ฒด ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฒฐ์ •๊ถŒ ๋ฐ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ถŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ธ์›€์€ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋ฒ•์  ์ฒด๊ณ„ ๋‚ด์™ธ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ด ์‹ธ์›€์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ง‘๋‹จ์  ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์  ๋„์ „์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž…๋ฒ•์  ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ํ™œ๋™์ฃผ์˜์™€ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ด์ต์˜ ๊ต์ฐจ์ ์€ ๊ธฐ์—… ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณธ์„ฑ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“ฃ ์ด์ œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ฐจ๋ก€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์ด ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ง์žฅ์—์„œ ๋…ผ๋ž€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด ๋ณด์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ์•„๋ž˜ ๋Œ“๊ธ€์—์„œ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํŒ”๋กœ์›Œ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ด ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”! ๐Ÿ“ฃ

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