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Re:Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy hou... by potato3732842 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:51AM (#41868754)
Because that's better for morale and has a lower administrative overhead than the administrative overhead of having a cutoff or whatever.
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Re:Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy hou... by jcgrillo on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:01AM (#41868820)
It would be even less administrative overhead to just give everyone the $18.2k/yr in their regular paycheck.
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Re:Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy hou... by bathtub365 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:57AM (#41869736)
The idea is to keep them in the office by giving them free food they’re only supposed to eat while they’re there, without paying overtime.
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Re:Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy hou... by salawat on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:52AM (#41870812)
IT people are overtime exempt. Overtime doesn't factor into the calculus.
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Re:Meta fires staff for 'using free meal vouchers to buy hou... by bathtub365 on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:11PM (#41885371)
I used to make overtime pay as a software developer. It’s just been widely accepted by a lot of software developers that they don’t deserve overtime.
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