On: Wanted at Chinese Startups: Attractive Women to Ease Coders’ Stress

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Is productivity worth more than sense of morals?

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What, particularly, is immoral about a workplace making an effort to ease the stress and maybe loneliness of their engineers?

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What's the corresponding result on, say, women, principally tasked with or tacitly expected to fill such roles?

Apply role-reversal or the Veil of Ignorance.

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It doesn't sound like women are being unilaterally tasked with, or tacitly imposed upon, to fill these roles. As I read the article, the companies are openly advertising for women and women are applying.

If roles were reversed, most of my colleagues were female, and they got in a couple of hot guys to listen attentively, give massages and generally raise morale, nobody would blink an eye. Hell, if you told me I could spend all day talking with the ladies instead of doing actual work then I might consider it.