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I think you've missed the broader point. The whole thing is a reminder that many 'progressive' companies like Facebook like to boast about how well they treat t
by room271 7y ago
I think you've missed the broader point. The whole thing is a reminder that many 'progressive' companies like Facebook like to boast about how well they treat their employees - high wages etc - but in reality they outsource most/all of the lower-paid jobs. There's nothing wrong with this(!) but it does mean they lose some moral highground as a lot of people working physically in their offices probably don't have very good terms/job security after all. (Unless, of course, they also require good conditions for their outsourced workers too.)
- foogazi 7y ago> There's nothing wrong with this Agree
- creddit 7y agoI don't know much in the way of details but there's this quote from the article implying the get meals: > “Would help ease the cost of not having hot food and snacks at work five days a week also.” There's also this article (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/facebook-to-raise-pay-for-thousands-of-contract-workers-including-content-moderators https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-13/facebook-...) which implies the minimum wage for their contractors is $18/hr in low cost areas and $22/hr in high cost areas.
- room271 7y agoThanks. One does wonder why they have tens of thousands of content moderators, none of whom are actual employees.
- imustbeevil 7y agoI would imagine Facebook hires contractors to moderate content because the job has high turnover and doesn't require any skills.
- uk_programmer 7y agoWhat do they mean by a contractor? Do they mean Software Engineering contractors or do they mean zero hour contractors which are typically not paid particularly well. I am a .NET contractor/consultant at a similarly large corporation (just finishing a contract now). I wouldn't expect a penny from the corporation. It just how it goes.