In general I do have a preference for hiring people involved in EA. Among other things, these people are easier to vet (as you remark).
When I hire contractors who are not EA’s (including those in developing countries), it’s usually because we need a specific skill set and can’t easily find EA’s with that skill set.
The breakdown you list at the bottom of your comment seems approximately similar to how I think about how easy work is to outsource.
Ok, that makes sense. Then, just encourage people to be flexibly hirable?
This can be minor but I was also making this comment for an event feedback: is there some staff that should be considered external to the community, such as ‘dead-end’ professions who are not interested in self-development, such as cloakroom staff? As in, you would not make a community member to specialize in carrying coats (or some other brainless, especially manual, work, unless it involves skilled emotional work)? (This is not to say that e. g. cloakroom person cannot be active in EA, if they are e. g. working part-time and reading about EA-related topics.) But, this is an argument for a preference for hiring non-EA involved people (or working with companies that contract staff). I am actually realizing that if it is possible, even persons who carry coats may be able to entertain one on ‘hmm I know this brand, they are sourcing environmentally and socially sustainable materials, but it looks funny’ etc.
In general I do have a preference for hiring people involved in EA. Among other things, these people are easier to vet (as you remark).
When I hire contractors who are not EA’s (including those in developing countries), it’s usually because we need a specific skill set and can’t easily find EA’s with that skill set.
The breakdown you list at the bottom of your comment seems approximately similar to how I think about how easy work is to outsource.
Ok, that makes sense. Then, just encourage people to be flexibly hirable?
This can be minor but I was also making this comment for an event feedback: is there some staff that should be considered external to the community, such as ‘dead-end’ professions who are not interested in self-development, such as cloakroom staff? As in, you would not make a community member to specialize in carrying coats (or some other brainless, especially manual, work, unless it involves skilled emotional work)? (This is not to say that e. g. cloakroom person cannot be active in EA, if they are e. g. working part-time and reading about EA-related topics.) But, this is an argument for a preference for hiring non-EA involved people (or working with companies that contract staff). I am actually realizing that if it is possible, even persons who carry coats may be able to entertain one on ‘hmm I know this brand, they are sourcing environmentally and socially sustainable materials, but it looks funny’ etc.