Top Tech companies in the US are so afraid of being sued for wrongful termination or discrimination that they let people do nothing all day working remote with no results. There are at least 5 people at my job that do nothing all day but get paid high 6 figures salaries.
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I thought in US you could simply terminate people because you had nothing productive for them to do?
Is this state law?
It’s not that they can’t terminate them, it’s that they aren’t incentivized to do so. There’s legal risk and then they have to pay for severance packages etc
There’s a rule of thumb that companies tend to hire as many people as they can afford.
It’s very difficult to sit there with 80% margin and not hire an small army to rule over. It actually goes against human nature.
It’s hard for me to understand why the big tech companies need 100,000 employees? It seems far too many.
I’ve never seen an engineering department of 500 people that couldn’t be done better with 50 people.
one's income =\= one's value
Where do you work, I need a job. 🤣