It’s a strange feeling when something you wrote goes viral. Multiple people send you your own article, I kept getting texts and emails and calls from people wanting to know what was up with the big Vox layoff. I’m talking to newspapers one minute, and then the Vox corporate guy the next.
It kind of sucked, but it didn’t have to be handled like that.
Vox didn’t need to fire everyone in California because of the new gig economy law. As they stated in their initial announcement, they’ve been working on this new approach for “years”:
This shift is part of a business and staffing strategy that we have been exploring over the past two years, but one that is also necessary in light of California’s new independent contractor law, which goes into effect January 1, 2020.