Re:The loneliness of the modern office team member
by minikites on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:10AM
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It's the purposeful destruction of job security which is used as a threat to make employees work harder. Why make friends with your co-workers if you or them could be fired at any point when the shareholders decide to "cut the fat" for higher profits?
Re:The loneliness of the modern office team member
by mojuba on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:27AM
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It's even shorter in the software industry. I think it was 2-2.5 years or close. Ordinary engineers switch jobs often as the only way to bump up their salaries.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm
>The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer was 4.1 years in January 2020
It's difficult to make friends in this environment and this is a relatively recent change: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/10/art2full.pdf