Uber's Culture Led One Tech Company to Boycott It on Moral Grounds
- Basecamp initiated ban in February: ‘We want less of Uber’
- Rival Lyft outpaced Uber in growth among business travelers
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With everything else that’s going on at Uber Technologies Inc. this week, there’s another sign of trouble brewing. A small project management firm has stopped reimbursing its employees for Uber rides, becoming possibly the first company to boycott the app on ethical concerns.
For Jason Fried, chief executive officer and founder of Chicago-based Basecamp, deleting Uber was an easy decision, and he didn’t need to wait for the results of an investigation by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to do it.