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does google employ or contract-out many lower-paid employees?
by liveoneggs 8y ago
does google employ or contract-out many lower-paid employees?
- bena 8y agoIf they do, I'd imagine it would be for the things that are necessary for what they want to provide but aren't necessary for what they want to do. They want a nice, clean work environment for their employees. So you need janitors. Want to provide catered lunch? You need food service workers. And the bar for "good enough" at those levels are much lower. You don't need a 5-star lunch every day. You need a decent lunch that's better than going out. And things can only get so clean.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoYes. All of their warehouse workers are employees of Integrity Staffing, not Amazon. Presumably Amazon is directing Integrity to bump up its wage.
- johnqpub 8y agoThis is simply 100% false. What do you think the 500,000 employees of Amazon are doing if not working in a warehouse? They're not programming.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThe press lumps Integrity's headcount as "Amazon". It is to Amazon's benefit that this falsehood goes unnoticed.
- johnqpub 8y agoGo look at the last quarterly filing. https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazoncom-announces-second-quarter-sales-39-529-billion https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail... Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel): 575,700 As dang said, if you're going to make a big claim, at least attempt to be right.
- dang 8y agoThat's a huge claim, which you shouldn't make without support. (I tried a quick search and found nothing to support "all".) Also, the parent's question was about Google.
- i_cant_speel 8y agoI'm not sure but I don't see the relevance of that. I was simply pointing out that the incentives for both companies are the same, so Amazon shouldn't be bashed for this in particular.