Re:Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay
by whatok on Thursday April 28, 2016 @12:58PM
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The market demanding it would be Yelp being unable to hire CSRs in SF at their current wages and being forced to raise wages to attract talent.
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Re:Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay
by actsasbuffoon on Thursday April 28, 2016 @03:50PM
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That's one scenario, but there are others.
If enough consumers decide to stop doing business with a company because of the company's behavior, then that's also a kind of market demand. The article gives one example of such a customer, though it's unwise to extrapolate too much from a single data point.
Re:Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay
by whatok on Thursday April 28, 2016 @04:30PM
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Yes, but ultimately it goes back to being unable to hire at current wages. Let's say that consumers stopped doing business with Yelp and they did not raise wages as a result. Yelp does not have a monopoly and someone would create a competing business and hire away their employees. Yelp would either be forced to raise wages or do without customer service/go out of business.