That isn't a problem at all in a lot of industries; sure, you may have to coddle tech workers for now, treat them like actual human beings and all that nonsense, but imagine a future where you can treat just like your warehouse staff. Wouldn't that be neat? /s

On a more serious note, I know a few companies who do treat their tech people like disposable inventory, on par with the lower-prestige roles, and it works out just fine for them. They don't get highly motivated world-class talent, but they don't need that sort of talent; just someone to take care of their relatively modest IT/dev needs. It's not very efficient across a lot of metrics, but low salaries probably compensate for that.

This seems to be a trend across all sorts of industries, less and less jobs that pay well, less employees that get coddled and treated well, commoditize the hell out of every last role etc. – just because it's not a big thing in much of tech yet probably doesn't mean it's an impossibility.

> but imagine a future where you can treat just like your warehouse staff. Wouldn't that be neat?

I think that day is closer than many imagine. If I take out well paying / no physical labor part I am as a Jira slave and daily standup chump are lot closer to warehouse worker than silicon valley type pampered engineer.

It’s already happening IMO. Tech wage growth has been pretty slow esp outside of the FAANGs, and many agreed upon “best practices” are commonplace in the industry now, leaving less room for differentiation among workers

Thats normal, in most industry, the worker resent their employer. They come and leave all the time.

A company purpose is to make money, not to take care of its employees.