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Employers are incentivised to retain the employment of their staff, which given the existence of other companies, means they're strongly incentivised NOT to hav
by mjburgess 4y ago
Employers are incentivised to retain the employment of their staff, which given the existence of other companies, means they're strongly incentivised NOT to have their employees "insecure".
- malfist 4y agoThat's only true if there's no cost to the employee of changing jobs. And that's not true. Changing jobs is expensive and costly to the employee, especially in terms of time and stress.
- bbor 4y agoIf an employee is insecure in their position as a “senior Big Tech dev” (read: top 1-2% income earner), they’ll be less likely to look for other jobs, slack off knowing they could get another job, or fight for raises / process improvements / anything, really. I guess the real point I’m making is that the “industry-wide” nature of these layoffs are an essential component.