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Smart employers don't offer sick leave out of the goodness of their heart: if the sick employee stays home, they don't infect others, so overall productivity is
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
Smart employers don't offer sick leave out of the goodness of their heart: if the sick employee stays home, they don't infect others, so overall productivity is higher. And of course this applies even more with the pandemic.
- krapp 7y agoAnd Amazon, being Amazon, generously offers their employees unlimited unpaid time off for the time being.
- ajross 7y agoYeah, but that's a long term kind of decision-making and market pressure that, as I said, really only works in a steady state environment. Right now Amazon needs to worry that if they offer this, everyone will take off sick out of fear. They have to worry that if that happens that it won't happen to Walmart, who didn't offer the benefit. There isn't time for a feedback cycle to work, they're worried about losing a years worth of revenue right now. You just can't trust an employer's self interest to align with ours at moments like this, for the same reason you can't trust our own self interests to align (c.f. people working when they're sick because they need the money, or sick new yorkers fleeing to other states -- both decisions made in immediate self interest).