Give the warehouse workers a raise, cut the salaries of the managers and techs making six figures. Problem solved.
Re:Billionaires Build
by notSupplied on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:05PM
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What if the warehouse workers outnumber the tech and managers 100:1? With >1 million employees, that ratio is likely pretty steep, in which case, even if all managers and tech workers were paid zero, it still wouldn’t move the needle for everyone else.
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Because it's spoken like someone who has never dealt with human resources inside a company. The people making more money have more options - they'll just leave Amazon.
Each role has it's own supply and demand. You can arbitrarily start paying less for a role and not expect there to be a negative impact.
You (and others, evidently) don’t pick up on the tongue in cheek nature of the comment. We all know we can simply raise pay at the bottom without needing to cut (or inflate) anyone else’s pay. They are similarly absurd propositions.
Amazon has 1.3M employees in the US and $11B in profit globally.
If you increase the wages at the bottom that pushes everyone up (why would a manager of the warehouse workers make less than the people they manage?).
So if you divide up that $11B in global profit across all 1.3M US workers, you get $8,700 per worker or maybe $500 extra per month after tax. A much appreciated boost by the folks at the bottom, but now global profit is $0.
I’m certainly not arguing against paying warehouse workers more. I’m just saying the “billions in profit” don’t go that far in a company the size of Amazon.