Many times workers work very closely to each other in the 'cube' environment, and that is very stressful because it's noisy, there's little or no privacy, and there is a forced conviviality. |
The No. 1 problem facing dot-comers is the amount of commitment and time spent at these start-ups at the expense of the employee's personal life. People make the sacrifice of putting the job ahead of relationships and personal health. |
There's a tremendous toll on the human side that start-ups take on people. And it just didn't seem like something that was being addressed. |
They're isolated from normal sources of support, struggling, seeing a good portion of their income go to rent. Their private lives get put on the back burner. |