It isn't selecting for people who aren't lazy, it's selecting for people who have no other options, which doesn't seem like the best way to attract talent.
If you were told you would have to work many more hours with fewer benefits for the same pay, but you had the option of going somewhere else for comparable pay, an actual ability to see your friends/family, and WFH/free meals/whatever, are you telling me that you would stay and take the worse working conditions just out of loyalty to a company that has no real loyalty to you and only employs you based off of an arbitrary metric?
Given the choice, of course you're going to take the option with reasonable working conditions and flexibility for the same pay.
The people they are retaining are largely going to be staying because they don't have that option.
Quite a few seem to have visas dependent on their employment and social circles they don't want to leave and some are scared that they won't be able to convince another employer of their value in today's tech climate where everyone is laying off.
It all comes down to who has money. Mono isn't really making anyone much of a profit, so it can go on being relatively safe. If it were bundled into the next release of iOS however, I'm sure we'd say policy changing quite a bit.
Oracle isn't also suing Apache's Harmony project from which Dalvik is derived, as there isn't much in the way of money in it. But Dalvik itself? EVIL infringement of over 9000 patents and the copyright on the documentation defining static variables!
If you were told you would have to work many more hours with fewer benefits for the same pay, but you had the option of going somewhere else for comparable pay, an actual ability to see your friends/family, and WFH/free meals/whatever, are you telling me that you would stay and take the worse working conditions just out of loyalty to a company that has no real loyalty to you and only employs you based off of an arbitrary metric?
Given the choice, of course you're going to take the option with reasonable working conditions and flexibility for the same pay.
The people they are retaining are largely going to be staying because they don't have that option.
Quite a few seem to have visas dependent on their employment and social circles they don't want to leave and some are scared that they won't be able to convince another employer of their value in today's tech climate where everyone is laying off.