It's actually not. Every other business in the world has to manage their workforce such that they have employees to do the work when they need them. It's genuin

It's actually not. Every other business in the world has to manage their workforce such that they have employees to do the work when they need them. It's genuinely impressive that these companies have just gone "Well, we're just not going to manage our staffing" and rather than that being a complete showstopper, it's seen as some brilliant loophole. Call centre employees don't stop getting paid in between the calls they receive- but maybe they should. Maybe every employee should stop being paid whilst they're not physically serving a customer - shop empty? Don't get paid. AWS services running smoothly? Let's make those Site Reliability Engineers clock out.