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The United States corporate culture has reached a failure mode of game theory. The average corporation is allergic to spending any money on training and has pus
by lovich 2mo ago
The United States corporate culture has reached a failure mode of game theory. The average corporation is allergic to spending any money on training and has pushed all of the costs onto labor.
They hope that some other moron will take up the costs and then they can poach the trained employee for cheap, while any corporation that does actually train feels like they should get the employee for cheap afterwards instead of compensating the employee at market rate.
Simultaneously the average corporation refuses to do something like have a contract with the employee for X years of labor at a set rate in the exchange for the training because they are also allergic to not being able to change their minds and lay off half their staff the next year.
This would be a place for the government to come in and force everyone to pick the good square on the prisoner’s dilemma, but yet again, our corporate culture is allergic to regulation or cooperation.
You can still get through a winter or two by eating your seed corn so I guess we’ll just continue barreling down this path.
- kcexn 2mo agoYou can't really force someone to work for X years at a place they don't want to. I don't know if what you're describing is an enforceable contract term.
- lovich 2mo agoThe terms involve the person paying back the training costs or some penalty if they quit before X years. I saw it once at the beginning of my career but that was nearly 15 years ago. US companies are usually unwilling to enter into any contract with labor because they want the ability to renege on the deal at will, hence the at will states. You see companies making contracts like this with other companies all the time, so I can only assume it’s a cultural value to never make a deal with labor.
- xboxnolifes 2mo agoSure you can, it's effectively the same contract agreement as a sign-on bonus that requires you to stay for at least 6 months. Instead it's training cost that you get saddled with if you leave before X time. Of course, the exact monetary value would have to be spelled out ahead of time. Well, I say sure you can, but I'm not a contract lawyer. It just sounds identical to me. You're not forced to stay, but if you end the contract you have to pay.