Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe...
by burntoutfire on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:50PM
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German economy is famous for being based on small and mid-sized companies (which are often the best in the world at the ultra-specialized thing that they do). My post was on impossiblity of high job satisfaction levels in big organizations, I don't think it's as bad for the mid-sized and small shops.
Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe...
by lisper on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:57PM
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There are 29 German companies in the Fortune Global 500, each with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_German_compani...
Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe...
by barry-cotter on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:33PM
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Most of those companies are well over 100 years old. I can’t be certain that Adidas in Germany is a terrible place to work but I can say that China HQ is bad enough to get workaholics to bail on it, worse than Amazon China.
Germany’s underperformance in founding new companies in the last 50 years is puzzling but I doubt shorter work hours really explain it. They’re actually working every single one of those hours.
Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe...
by KennyBlanken on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:16PM
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> German economy is famous for being based on small and mid-sized companies
Companies under 500 people are responsible for half of the jobs in the US.
Companies under 20 workers are ~15% of the employment market.
https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/0414...
It is manifestly possible. The Germans do it.
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/236165/german-workers-satis...
The reason it doesn't happen in the U.S. is that workers have been systematically stripped of all of their power, so corporate management now answers exclusively to shareholders. Trying to make life better for your workers puts you at a competitive disadvantage.
But it does not have to be that way. All we have to do to change it is to decide that it needs to change.