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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] lawrence@lemmy.world 87 points 4 months ago (14 children)

The reasons are the worst:

  • Companies said they are posting fake jobs for a laundry list of reasons, including to deceive their own employees.

  • More than 60% of those surveyed said they posted fake jobs “to make employees believe their workload would be alleviated by new workers.”

  • Sixty-two percent of companies said another reason for the shady practice is to “have employees feel replaceable.”

  • Two-thirds of companies cited a desire to “appear the company is open to external talent” and 59% said it was an effort to “collect resumes and keep them on file for a later date.”

  • What’s even more concerning about the results: 85% of companies engaging in the practice said they interviewed candidates for the fake jobs."

[–] tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 76 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is insane. Paying people to recruit for fake jobs instead of paying their current employees more...

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Paying people more is a recurring cost, and the ultimate goal of a company is to keep increasing profits. If they can spend $10k once to scare their employees into being more productive, it has a better return on investment.

[–] tattletaletimes@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Disgusting and true. I wonder what percent of companies threw pizza parties.. 🙄

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's been proven time and time again that treating your employees correctly and paying them what they're worth is far more productive. It's just sociopathy.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but that's thinking long-term. CEOs of publicly traded companies don't give a shit about anything other than making the line go up during their own employment at the company.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Cutting 10% of the workforce is profit right in the pocket of the shareholders, as long as the company can somewhat continue to go on.

They don't give a fuck about productivity, but they will dangle that over your head for whatever reason they deem advantageous.

You want a raise? Bummer, productivity is lower than expected, so we have no budget for that.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 4 months ago

Cruelty is the point.

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