• bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There’s utility in keeping workers desperate, it depresses wages.

    Think about the coordinated tech layoffs that happened and now the tech industry has a labor surplus.

    Saves them money.

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      1 year ago

      The company that laid me off is paying me 4 months of wages without any work, this is the severance package I get in exchange for them not being forced to try to find me another suitable position in the company or “prove” that there no tasks at the company that I could do with my existing skill set (that’s how the law works where I live).

      Was it really worth it?