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I'm not sure why you think it's about supply and demand. Obviously engineers and managers are going to make more money than low-skilled workers. But this is abo
by eigenvector 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think it's about supply and demand. Obviously engineers and managers are going to make more money than low-skilled workers. But this is about perks that are equally offered to all employees - except those who are deemed unworthy of even being an employee and have no potential job ladder toward becoming one.
At companies like Facebook and Google, perks aren't divvied up by how skilled you are. A junior HR worker or accountant gets the same free food as the top engineers. One could hardly argue that they are equally important to the company. The division is between white collar and blue collar workers - the former get all the perks, and the latter get nothing. When you offer the perks to lawyers (an oversupplied profession) without a second thought but withhold them from the technician who fixes stuff at your datacenters in the middle of the night (someone who actually works on your product), it smells more like classism than anything else.
- mattnewton 9y agoI just don't think that's true. At Google or Facebook or wherever you're not getting a floor to yourself and a personal admin/assistant as a junior engineer, but you can as an SVP. Similarly as a contractor for an external services company you aren't going to get all the perks as the employees of the company. And they have to be separate for tax reasons. And of course this is shitty. I think there needs to be something done about the housing market and general CoL in the area though, as well as asking one employer to pay a bit more. Having Facebook subsidize the area might look great while they have money but isn't sustainable; they should be putting pressure on Facebook to back/lobby for affordable housing initiatives on behalf of it's employees.