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If you're hired for the Christmas rush, you know it's temporary. These poor people probably didn't realize they were just a temporary hire. Would they have joi
by AlbertCory 4y ago
If you're hired for the Christmas rush, you know it's temporary. These poor people probably didn't realize they were just a temporary hire.
Would they have joined if Zoom had disclosed on hiring them, "We're experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime growth spurt because of COVID. If and when that ends, we may have to lay you off." ??
- erik_seaberg 4y ago“If ___ we may have to lay you off” is always true, I wouldn’t believe anyone who promised that can’t happen. Unlike Christmas, Zoom couldn’t know when or if demand might subside, and their goal was that it wouldn’t. We shouldn’t punish employers for leaning into strong markets, because unemployment is much worse when they’re reluctant to ever hire even at the best of times.
- AlbertCory 4y agoWell, no. Black Swan events are fundamentally different than "strong markets." It would be like a "survival supplies" store hiring 10,000 "permanent" employees when there's threat of a nuclear apocalypse. You could argue that the Zoom employees knew, or should have known, that they were really temp hires.