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For those who may not know, companies do this so they can classify as many workers as possible as "exempt employees" meaning they are exempt from overtime pay a

• zdragnar 8y ago
  "In general, to be considered an “exempt” employee, you must be paid a salary (not hourly) and must perform executive, administrative or professional duties." https://www.thebalancecareers.com/exempt-and-a-non-exempt-employee-2061988 https://www.thebalancecareers.com/exempt-and-a-non-exempt-em... To be honest, I'm a little surprised that these employees couldn't be considered administrative or professional without a managerial title. Edit: reading further, this clarifies a bit: "These categories are purposefully broad to encompass many types of jobs. However, it is the tasks performed on the job, not the job title alone, which determine exempt vs. non-exempt employment status." Essentially, it's not entirely a cop-out by companies to avoid worker protections.
• MisterOctober 8y ago
  This is emphatically the case. The administrative and IT exemptions are rankly abused. It's not only big / tech companies that engage in this practice, either -- so many folks work for middling-or-less salary and expected to put in uncompensated overtime. Companies craft HR policy to shoehorn practically every full-time position into an exempt class.