Roe Ruling’s Repercussions for Tech; Zendesk’s Fit of Pique

What a week! Tech business news has been relatively scarce in recent days—but today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade will have repercussions for all businesses. For the tech industry, which has been spreading outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York for the past couple of years as remote work has become widely available, the ruling makes operating in states with abortion bans, like Texas, more problematic.

As has been widely reported, several tech companies have joined other businesses in  promising to cover travel costs for women forced to travel outside their state to get an abortion. Uber and Lyft have also said they’ll cover legal fees for their drivers if they get sued under laws in Texas and Oklahoma that put anyone helping a woman get an abortion at risk of fines.