- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined
Industries promote this, especially the publicly traded ones, whether they realize it or not (I’m sure they do). It looks worse on a corporate balance sheet and subsequent earnings quarterly earnings report to pay someone 20% more than to hire someone at a new pay scale. It’s absolutely insane that we’ve gotten ourselves to this point as a society, but here we are.
I don’t understand how it works out for them though. Hiring is so much more expensive than retaining staff, not just the higher salary, but the loss of productivity from losing someone with institutional knowledge and needing to train the new person which can take a really long time to get them up to speed.
You see if you slice the cake enough times. There becomes more cake.
That’s called accounting.
You’re using logic, and that may trip you up here.
Hiring is spread out into different cost buckets, whereas a 20% hit to one resource’s payroll stays in payroll.
I think it’s also very acceptable to have full time contractors on the payroll with no end date for the same reason.
why?
Contractors can be paid out of project budgets, they don’t need benefits and other perks aside from cash and they can be hired and terminated quickly with no severance
And that goes back to the engineer’s original ask to show him what companies have employee loyalty.
Replacing full time employees who at least have a slight stake in the company with easily replaceable contractors there to complete a project doesn’t put the best foot forward in the loyalty regard.
When you leave the car lot, you need to use regular words like ‘request’ or ‘question’.