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And one worker on the board would change that? How? If the managers - whose duty is supposed to be knowing what's going on, that's literally what they are paid
by smsm42 8y ago
And one worker on the board would change that? How? If the managers - whose duty is supposed to be knowing what's going on, that's literally what they are paid for - can't, how one person whose job is doing something else, could in addition to that gain adequate knowledge of what's going on that is impossible for others to gain? Especially in a company that has, say, a hundred of people? Best case they would know what's going in their corner of work, but in any company which doesn't fit in a single room that won't be representative of others. Unless you make that worker spend whole day on figuring what's going on, talking with all workers from all other rooms, systematizing and analyzing and processing this information to make conclusions - by which time, you just made him a manager.
- walshemj 8y agoThey would be acting as a nonexec director it would effectively be a fulltime role maybe 2 days a week minimum.
- gowld 8y agoBy the same argument, shareholders shouldn't be on the board either, since they aren't management.
- smsm42 8y agoIf the only consideration is "knowing what's going on" then yes. But shareholders are owners, so they may demand participation even if they don't know anything, just for the fact they actually own the company (at last partially).
- cannonedhamster 8y agoBy that token employees who own company stock should have a place on the board.
- geezerjay 8y ago> Unless you make that worker spend whole day on figuring what's going on, talking with all workers from all other rooms, Workers representatives are picked to represent workers in negotiations and discussion, and their job is to spend the whole day figuring what's going on.
- smsm42 8y agoThen it's just a kind of manager (in the better case, in worse it's a union functionary with a political agenda which may have little to do with worker's interests in a particular workplace).