Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem (2017)

Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by diegoholiveira on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:14AM (#17959865)

I didn't say that an entrepreneur should not have any kind of responsibility for the employees. What I said it's that we have too many responsibilities. For example:

- We have 13º salary, with may be easy for a large company to pay, but it's expensive for a small company;

- We have FGTS, that is like a saving account paid by the company in the name of employee;

- It's very complicated to hire someone with a non-conventional work contract.

And so on. I'm not saying that we should remove labor rights, what I'm saying it's that we need to find a balance that is good to everyone: employee, small companies, large companies and so on.

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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by zorked on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:39AM (#17960094)

The 13th salary exists in other countries too (example: Switzerland). It's a dumb thing to complain about because you have to be able to pay an employee's yearly salary in a year. It's not a surprise. It comes every December.

FGTS also has its equivalents in several forms of unemployment insurance. It's a bad thing only in how the insurance is mismanaged by the government, not because it exists at all. I guess countries that do not have unemployment insurance are rare and extremely poor?

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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by diegoholiveira on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:02PM (#17961936)

I just found a report that claims that the cost of a employee to the company 22% over the wage, while in Brazil is 71%.

http://www.uhy.com/wp-content/uploads/UHY-study-on-employmen...

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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by zorked on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:14PM (#17962424)

I posted something but don't have the time to double-check the math. I suggest you do your own calculations. In particular do not count income (13th salary, food tickets, travel reimbursements, etc.) as though it was taxes.

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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by diegoholiveira on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#17960617)

The point is that this is expensive to small companies, startups are small, with a budget that may not allow this kind of cost. To large companies, pay those things are fine.

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