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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by will_brown on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:09AM (#12714197)
>Also all the large tech players have done this to a large degree

Didn't all the big tech players recently get sued in a class action for colluding to stifle worker's wages specifically by agreeing not to poach each others employees?

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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by ekianjo on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:28AM (#12714297)
That's not because they decided to get together to stop inflating waves that it means the waves were not high in the first place.
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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by jnbiche on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:55AM (#12714402)
Yes, but the fact that they were found guilty of suppressing wages does mean without question that they weren't attempting to consciously pay above market wages to gain some Ford-like benefit as with efficiency wages.
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Re:Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Hi... by xenadu02 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @02:03PM (#12714995)
Don't forget: Facebook capitalized on the scheme by offering above-market wagesa and refusing to participate. They poached a lot of good engineers that way.
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