Re:Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
by godelski on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:03PM
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Why pay their employees $200k/yr? Why not $100k? Why not $50k? Why not $0? I mean they are just playing on computers all day.
I know this may be a __radical__ idea, but possibly paying your employees more and giving them good benefits helps you: 1) get the best candidates 2) keep the best candidates 3) keep workers happy (read efficient) 4) keeps them working longer hours and taking less time off (less stress). If only there was a plethora of studies and historical evidence to back this.
Re:Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
by nerdponx on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:08PM
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Stated another way: this is a $45m PR investment.
Re:Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
by packetslave on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:46PM
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Considering that the only way HN knows anything about this is because some jerk leaked an internal post from Mark, this has nothing to do with PR.
Re:Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
by srpinto on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:38PM
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"Mark". Is he your friend?
Re:Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
by packetslave on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:49PM
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In my experience, people mostly refer to him internally as "Mark". Just like at Google they refer to Larry and Sergey as, well, "Larry" and "Sergey".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy
Why did they choose $1,000? Why not $2,000, $6,000 on any other number for that matter? They are piggy backing on the good will Andrew Yang and Mitt Romney generated.