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To play the devils advocate for a moment, I will suggest that the opposite of wage theft, whereby employees steal time/resources from their employers, is in ord
by balozi 5y ago
To play the devils advocate for a moment, I will suggest that the opposite of wage theft, whereby employees steal time/resources from their employers, is in orders of magnitude far greater. Almost no employee devotes 100% of their effort and time to their employer during paid time. Lots of socializing, day dreaming and standing around at every workplace. My point is to suggest that there are nuances to employer-employee arrangements that policy institutes can not account for.
- overtonwhy 5y agoPeople are human beings, not robots. What you're suggesting is inhumane. Maybe that's not something worth advocating for regardless of who is paying you.
- mchusma 5y agoI agree with what you are saying. I personally have never seen something in the real world that looks much like "wage theft". I have seen hundreds of examples of basically the inverse, workers deliberately lying to employers to earn more. I think it's best if we just keep the word "theft" out if it. It is a misleading rhetorical tool.
- orwin 5y ago> workers deliberately lying to employers to earn more I don't see it. Is your contract about labor done, or about time given away? In the first case, i don't see it, unless you lie about the labour done (which is pretty hard to do unless your employer don't understand one lick of what you're doing). If its time spent, well, i'm pretty sure that you then have to take into account commute time, time spent thinking about your work, mistake you've done, explaining what you're doing to people, bounding with coworker. In this case, i'm pretty sure most devs, arch or ops are owed a lot of money :)
- whateveracct 5y agoThey are still spending hours at the place of work though. Nobody gets paid per sweatdrop - they get paid for their hours on the clock.