{"id":15978,"date":"2018-01-08T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2018-01-08T07:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T12:03:44","slug":"silicon-valley-companies-are-so-full-of-men-women-had-to-be-hired-for-the-holiday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2018\/silicon-valley-companies-are-so-full-of-men-women-had-to-be-hired-for-the-holiday-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Companies Are So Full Of Men, Women Had To Be Hired For The Holiday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/010818_1200_SiliconVall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Frier wrote about Silicon Valley holiday parties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The gender imbalance at tech companies mean that most employee holiday parties would be dominated by males.<\/li>\n<li>To get around this there are companies that will provide models for $50-$200 an hour to socialize with guests at parties.<\/li>\n<li>The models aren&#8217;t always female \u2013 about a quarter will be male to up the overall look and classiness of the event.<\/li>\n<li>The models are required to sign non-disclosure agreements, and to pretend that they&#8217;re involved with the company.<\/li>\n<li>They will be coached with employee names that they can refer to as friends if they&#8217;re asked why they haven&#8217;t been seen before.<\/li>\n<li>To make sure that the models aren&#8217;t caught in compromising situations they&#8217;re often given strict, relatively conservative dress codes, and required to not drink alcohol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-07\/silicon-valley-is-sneaking-models-into-this-year-s-holiday-parties\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Frier wrote about Silicon Valley holiday parties: The gender imbalance at tech companies mean that most employee holiday parties would be dominated by males. To get around this there are companies that will provide models for $50-$200 an hour to socialize with guests at parties. The models aren&#8217;t always female \u2013 about a quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/010818_1200_SiliconVall1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15981,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/15981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}