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Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by liveoneggs on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:06AM (#18121776)
does google employ or contract-out many lower-paid employees?
Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by bena on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:22AM (#18121944)
If they do, I'd imagine it would be for the things that are necessary for what they want to provide but aren't necessary for what they want to do.

They want a nice, clean work environment for their employees. So you need janitors.

Want to provide catered lunch? You need food service workers.

And the bar for "good enough" at those levels are much lower. You don't need a 5-star lunch every day. You need a decent lunch that's better than going out. And things can only get so clean.

Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by i_cant_speel on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:34PM (#18124379)
I'm not sure but I don't see the relevance of that. I was simply pointing out that the incentives for both companies are the same, so Amazon shouldn't be bashed for this in particular.
Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:38AM (#18122664)
Yes. All of their warehouse workers are employees of Integrity Staffing, not Amazon. Presumably Amazon is directing Integrity to bump up its wage.
Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by dang on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:39PM (#18123871)
That's a huge claim, which you shouldn't make without support. (I tried a quick search and found nothing to support "all".)

Also, the parent's question was about Google.

Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by johnqpub on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:24PM (#18123101)
This is simply 100% false. What do you think the 500,000 employees of Amazon are doing if not working in a warehouse? They're not programming.
Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:27PM (#18123139)
The press lumps Integrity's headcount as "Amazon". It is to Amazon's benefit that this falsehood goes unnoticed.
Re:Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees by johnqpub on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:48AM (#18131408)
Go look at the last quarterly filing.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel): 575,700

As dang said, if you're going to make a big claim, at least attempt to be right.