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Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024)

lawrence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The reasons are the worst:

Companies said they are posting fake jobs for a laundry list of reasons, including to deceive their own employees.
More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.”
Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”
Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.”
What’s even more concerning about the results: 85% of companies engaging in the practice said they interviewed candidates for the fake jobs."

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tattletaletimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is insane. Paying people to recruit for fake jobs instead of paying their current employees more…

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- pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Paying people more is a recurring cost, and the ultimate goal of a company is to keep increasing profits. If they can spend $10k once to scare their employees into being more productive, it has a better return on investment.
  
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  - whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s been proven time and time again that treating your employees correctly and paying them what they’re worth is far more productive. It’s just sociopathy.
    
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    pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, but that’s thinking long-term. CEOs of publicly traded companies don’t give a shit about anything other than making the line go up during their own employment at the company.
    
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    Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Cutting 10% of the workforce is profit right in the pocket of the shareholders, as long as the company can somewhat continue to go on.
    
    They don’t give a fuck about productivity, but they will dangle that over your head for whatever reason they deem advantageous.
    
    You want a raise? Bummer, productivity is lower than expected, so we have no budget for that.
    
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  - tattletaletimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Discussing and true. I wonder what percent of companies threw pizza parties… 🙄
    
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- Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Cruelty is the point.
  
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dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Holy hell. Those are the things they’re willing to admit? Then what the fuck do they still have in hiding?

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- pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In some jurisdictions, you can’t hire foreign workers unless there are no local workers that meet the job requirements. Posting a fake position with the intent to deny all candidates is usually sufficient to demonstrate that an attempt was made to search for local talent, but they can’t admit without getting into a lot of trouble.
  
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  - Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    But is it a fake position if you intend to fill it with a foreign worker?
    
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- Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Hey now. These companies are made of people.
  
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Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
“Nobody wants to work anymore” say the companies that deceive people into thinking they might get a job with postings for positions that don’t exist.

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- retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah, if I applied to a job and then they tried to contact me a year later I’d turn them down just based on the principle.
  
  If you reverse it and imagine a prospective hire putting off an interview for months or a year and then calling in expecting to still take the interview it shows how ridiculous it is.
  
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  - Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    The can do it because hold all the cards. Honestly, if our government actually wanted to protect us, they would make this illegal.
    
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