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Re:Google to pause all hiring for two weeks by pjc50 on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:50AM (#32214020)
> There is such a taboo around pay cuts

One side effect of inflation being ~10% is that if you want to give your staff a pay cut all you have to do is do nothing.

Re:Google to pause all hiring for two weeks by xhkkffbf on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:26PM (#32214952)
But it only works if you're able to raise prices for your customers. Often that's hard and sometimes impossible.
Re:Google to pause all hiring for two weeks by matt-attack on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:55AM (#32238306)
Are raised prices the very definition of inflation?