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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by andreareina on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:28PM (#34255528)
And that means that companies are incentivised to hire adequately. Whereas companies see no immediate (and attributable, this is important) problems when exempt employees are pushed to work overtime.
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Re:Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Pl... by bumby on Thursday January 05, 2023 @08:27AM (#34259256)
Ehh…from my experience, overtime was the rule, not the exception so I don’t know how strong that incentive was.
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