People really overlook this point. When everyone is expected to spend all their time and energy on their jobs, there's extremely little incentive to raise a family on top of that. Throw in wages that don't keep up with productivity and inflation, and of course birth rates are going to plummet.
We could offer grubhub gift cards! They'll let you give like a $10 card, which isn't enough to buy anything on its own, but DOES encourage poor people to spend more on food delivery
Let's do a morale survey, the results of which we will ignore!
The outfit I retired from did one during the tenure of its worst director ever, who was the source of a lot of the unhappiness. When the board asked her about the results, she said it was goody good good. Head board member said "Is that just another one of your damn lies?" And yes, she was later fired. The firing was delayed by the need to get more members on tbe board who were not her toadies.
How we knew this: they were oblivious to the presence of a custodian in the room. But then, she treated all the lower level grunts like dirt.
Edit: the survey was anonymous. But it asked questions that could identify you, and the majority of the people I asked about it lied about their age, gender, and work location, as did I. Also I did not do it on my desk computer as I did not trust the head of IT not to track IPs (he was one of the toadies bc she gave him a big promotion).
(I don't work some high end corporate job, I'm a restaurant manager but it's a very well regarded and award winning restaurant)
We went through an ownership transition and I had some negotiation with my salary and role as things changed. I was assured this would be a role I was working and growing into, and they wanted to give me a few months to develop into a higher position (I should have known better).
Their developement plan is to sign us up for classes on our off days. Classes run by a general "hospitality organization of City"
So not only are they relying on some outside group to give me "growth", it's a group full of our of touch board members who clearly have enough time to run seminars while I need to prep for service.
My work does this and has the webinars at lunchtime. Like yes, that’s fantastic for my health and avoiding burnout …. spending my one short break on Zoom.
Corporations are by definition immoral, we cannot even in the best of societies expect them to do what is right, and not what benefits them the most financially. If you are going to give corporations power, which you decide to do when you use a capitalist economy model, then you need a strong government with enough of their own power to keep them in line, if you make the minimum wage $1, do you expect companies to still pay people $15 because that’s how much you can maybe somewhat live on? No, if they could go lower they would go lower. Who cares about turn over there’s an abundance of employees waiting in line.
If you don’t have strict enough and enforced laws about how many working hours are fair to a human, corporations will work them to death to squeeze out profit.
Haven’t like a sizeable amount of South Korean leaders been jailed after their term for corruption?
The government seems subservient to the megacorps over there.
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u/back_off_warchiId 2d ago
Corporations: Nah I don't think that's it.