Cruelty is the point.
Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024)
tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 3 months agoThis is insane. Paying people to recruit for fake jobs instead of paying their current employees more…
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 months ago
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
whostosay@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Discussing and true. I wonder what percent of companies threw pizza parties… 🙄