<story><title>A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/stitch-fix-employees-quitting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt;  The new CEO, she said, “thinks that the [technology] can do better than us, and that clients don’t care ... that there’s not a person behind the computer.”&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s surprising. The only reason I&amp;#x27;ve ever considered Stitch Fix is specifically because there might be a person with better taste than me on the other end.&lt;p&gt;An algorithm is just going to give me a mix of what&amp;#x27;s popular and what I&amp;#x27;ve liked in the past, which is precisely the information I already had before coming to their service. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t people eventually realize they don&amp;#x27;t need to be told to keep buying things they already like?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d be more interested if they not only kept the people around, but doubled down on having consistent relationships and interaction between stylists and clients.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alistairSH</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The only reason I&amp;#x27;ve ever considered Stitch Fix is specifically because there might be a person with better taste than me on the other end.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the ex-workers in the article are representative, they aren&amp;#x27;t trained stylists at all; they&amp;#x27;re housewives and other normal people looking for extra income.  Using StitchFix is basically letting your Uber driver select your wardrobe.</text></comment>
<story><title>A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/stitch-fix-employees-quitting</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>karaterobot</author><text>&amp;gt;  The new CEO, she said, “thinks that the [technology] can do better than us, and that clients don’t care ... that there’s not a person behind the computer.”&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s surprising. The only reason I&amp;#x27;ve ever considered Stitch Fix is specifically because there might be a person with better taste than me on the other end.&lt;p&gt;An algorithm is just going to give me a mix of what&amp;#x27;s popular and what I&amp;#x27;ve liked in the past, which is precisely the information I already had before coming to their service. Wouldn&amp;#x27;t people eventually realize they don&amp;#x27;t need to be told to keep buying things they already like?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d be more interested if they not only kept the people around, but doubled down on having consistent relationships and interaction between stylists and clients.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nightski</author><text>I use Stitch Fix and personally I don&amp;#x27;t care.  So far the selections have been great.&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the stylist is provided data from an algorithm already any way and just fine tunes the selections.&lt;p&gt;Not only that they have a lot of ways to build out the style you already received which is great.</text></comment>