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"&gt;There's no ""law of capitalism"" that says that companies have to pay their employees as little as possible. There's no law of capitalism that says companies have to ""maximize short-term profits."" That's just a story that America's owners made up to justify taking as much of the company's wealth as possible for themselves.  Isn't the relentless accumulation of capital, um, exactly the basis of capitalism? Owners aren't sufficiently incentivized to pay people more and they're not going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts unless they want to be undercut by their more ruthless competition.  Wealth inequality won't be solved by guilt or altruism. Just as child labor laws and the 40-hour week had to be enshrined in law in order to become the norm, so will whatever solution we have for wealth redistribution."
&gt; It seems outsourcing tech usually turns out to be a disaster for most companies in the long term  Source? I think you usually only hear about failures, but who would brag about successfully moving operations abroad? You can hire decent developers for less than in the US pretty much everywhere in the world, but you can't bee too greedy.
&gt;It's biggly sad you don't understand human nature.  This has nothing to do with human nature, it's about economics. If you are an employer, you do not hire and retain an employee that provides you value that is less than the wage you pay that employee. If you do, it *costs* you money to keep them on payroll. So if you force employers to pay a certain wage, all potential employees that are unskilled/uneducated/lacking experience that do not merit that wage have now been banned from the workforce because the base wage is higher than the work they provide. And the higher you set that base wage, the more people you ban from the work force.
On top of that, don't impose a hierachical accountability system. Create a culture that pushes employees to commit to personal accountability for their actions and behaviors instead of exhausting yourself holding employees to the fire. Provide an environment that prompts employees to walk the coals themselves. Culture is everything to an organization, no matter its scale and size.
I never said all public employees fly first class. I worked in the public sector for 3 years and flew economy and most of colleagues did as well so I agree that most public employees fly coach.   Maybe I didn't explain what I did before starting a business. As a computer programmer for 15 years, I've worked for 2 private companies and 1 publicly-funded educational organization. Public or private, I've always flown economy except for a couple of times where I was bumped to first class by the airline.   A lot of people fly coach when taking personal trips so it would be hypocritical of them to demand first class from their employer for business trips. I guess it just pisses me off when people brag that they fly first class or business class or booked a posh hotel room with a view when their paycheck comes from tax dollars or union dues.
Employees were already cashing out their RSUs and selling stock on private markets.    &gt;Even if Facebook could resist, an eager army of Facebook employees is pushing hard for an I.P.O., according to Eric Eldon of TechCrunch. In 2008, Facebook adopted a new restricted stock program that prevented employees from selling their shares until an I.P.O. or a sale, or if Facebook permitted it.  They still could have stayed private if they really wanted to.  They were compensating employees in stock, and those employees wanted to cash out.  The underwriters wanted to cash out before the financials became open to public scrutiny.
&gt; my only argument is that the degree alone doesn't define competence.  Of course! But degrees determine interests.  And it seems that you are trying extremely hard to not understand what I said: if someone has degrees in music and has proven skill and knowledge in security, I will hire them.  But not as Chief Information Security Officer. For this, you need someone who took many specialized training and got their end dirty working, designing, planning and setting security systems.  So we BOTH agree, mainly based on the stupid things that Susan said, that Susan was not qualified for her job.  &gt; I also never agreed that she got the job due to connections:   So give me a possible way how Susan got her job.  &gt; HR ...  Contractors, on the other hand, perfectly fine.  OMG! Contractor, or temps, or outsourcing is not fine, especially by the HR department, because it all means trying to save money on workers, not giving any benefits or security and shoddy work.  Contractors, except IT, are paid less than permanent employees.  All I can wish for you that you will work as a Contractor all your life and you will see how great it is yourself.
If I hire someone in Utah to do sales for me over the phone, and he   works out of his home, am I required to register an LLC or file my   current one as a foreign entity in Utah? Yes, since you've established presence in Utah. You'll register your current LLC in Utah, no point creating another one. If my sales guy, or I, call businesses in, say, Florida, and sell a   few businesses our services for online work like maybe a website   design, etc. Are we required to file our LLC In Florida as either a   new LLC or a foreign one? No, you need to register where you (your company, including your employees or physical offices) are physically present. You don't need to register in any state you ship products or provide services to. If no-one of your company's employees is present in Florida and you don't have an office/rent a storage there - then you have no presence in Florida. If you actually go there to provide the services - then you do.
What is the per capita increase that they are anticipating for full-time employees? This is not meant to be a political question, I'm just curious what the actual number is :P  &gt;The test entails increasing the number of workers on part-time status, meaning they work less than 30 hours a week. Under the new health care act, companies will be required to provide health care to full-time employees by 2014. That would significantly boost labor costs for businesses.
"If it was me, I would drop out. You can achieve a better kind of plan when there is no match.  For example Fidelity has no fee accounts for IRAs and Roths with thousands of investment choices.  You can also setup automatic drafts, so it simulates what happens with your 401K.  Not an employee of Fidelity, just a happy customer. Some companies pass the 401K fees onto their employees, and all have limited investment choices. The only caveat is income.  There are limits to the deductibility of IRAs and Roth contributions if you make ""too much"" money.  For Roth's the income is quite high so most people can still make those contributions.  About 90% of households earn less than $184K, when Roths start phasing out. Now about this 401K company, it looks like the labor department has jurisdiction over these kinds of plans and I would research on how to make a complaint.  It would help if you and other employees have proof of the shenanigans.  You might also consult a labor attourney, this might make a great class."
"How is paying a liveable wage ""overpaying"" them? These stores make money hand over fist, and would not be able to do any of that without the help of everyone on the front lines working their ass off. Working an extra 10-20 hours of unpaid overtime for fear of being fired if they don't.  I've got my nice cushy corporate job now, but I have worked at one of these shit holes (target, not walmart) and it is horrifying how they treat their employees."
The roofing situation is clear.  H2B visas distort the roofing labor market by reducing prevailing wages with lower-paid immigrant labor.  This allows companies to offer products at unnaturally reduced prices.  It would be unrealistic to try and run a business with local US-born labor, that's higher priced.  If your competitors can hire low-priced foreigners, you need to do it too (unless you can somehow find locals at the same price/quality/productivity).  If the H2B labor supply was cut off, then it's likely that no roofing companies could find labor for $17/hr.  They'd have to raise wages, take fewer jobs, or go out of business.  This would raise prices.    Customers wouldn't be happy, but they'd pay the price because they need roof work done.  All vendors prices would go up equally.  This process may take time.  There's a shortage.  Prices go up.  Wages go up.  Jobs become more desirable.  More workers get trained in the field, increasing the supply of labor.  This occurs until the labor supply is back in balance.  On a side note, this particular business owner sounds like they need better marketing.  If prospects want low priced work, they're going to get low-quality results.  If she wants to sell a premium roofing product, she needs to differentiate it from everyone else.  No customer spends more money just to support someone else's employees.  If she can only get penny-pinching customers, she needs to do penny-pinching work.
&gt;My iPhone is made with products from Fox con.  Last time I check Fox Con didn't make any products they assembled them.  And Fox Con is improving their treatment of their employees.  &gt;I do not see rival companies (like Samsung) doing the same thing.  Rival companies aren't also under heat to do such a thing like Apple is.  But that doesn't mean they aren't doing this.  As just because they aren't making a PR stunt out of it doesn't mean they aren't doing it.  &gt;I would never say that I live a purely virtuous life.  So don't pretend to be all virtuous then.  Before you jump the gun I am not saying unethical behavior should outright be accepted, but that the world needs some unethical behavior to well operate.  As they say there are necessary evils that need to be done/carried out.
It's not a problem. Tesla is in business of selling it vehicles. If their employees have so much confidence in their cars that they're willing to put their own money into it, that should only give us non employees more confidence.
How is that a victim mentality?  You are being obtuse. Every business pays taxes.  Why is it a big deal that walmart paid taxes?    &gt; How about Walmart and other large large employers just shut down.  Why are you being stupid?  What does this have to do with anything?  I don't care what companies shut down because other companies will take their market share.  that's how the economy works.
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I am trying to understand the mindset of these authors.  They cite the research that shows top-10% companies in a given industry are much more productive than others, especially compared to the bottom 10%. OK, that's to be expected. That's why they are in the top 10%.  They employees in those top-tier companies get paid more. Again, standard economics. Marginally higher productivity results in marginally higher wages. Got it.  Then the concluding paragraph says:  &gt; This is the conundrum that policy makers have to solve: Productivity gaps create inequality. Public policy can and should help. But in trying to protect workers, policies might well endanger future productivity growth, and with it, workers’ prospects.  Well, yeah. If you subsidize firms and employees that aren't competitive then you get... less productivity and earnings.  God damn communists.  How about instead you let people work it out in the marketplace. Those that can't keep up will fail and move on to other things. Yes, that temporary situation sucks for the people involved. It's Schumpeter's creative destruction in action.
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Costco is great, and more companies should be great.  Everybody is about squeezing every last bit of profit in the short term.  Part of the problem is that executives aren't judged on the success and health of their companies, but the short term profits they can generate.  When the company has been sucked dry and dies, they just move on to the next opportunity to gut and destroy value.    The last few decades of HP is a great example, and now that Mayer is finished stomping out Yahoo's last breath, rumor is she might get the opportunity to do it at Uber.    Costco pays its employees a living wage, doesn't fuck the consumer, and doesn't allow the company to be sucked dry by executives' payouts.
Awesome to see this.  Costco is a much better company and they treat their employees well.  I'm happy to see Walmart employees stand up for their rights and make a stand.  It must be incredibly difficult for them as well, considering their financial situation.
Reddit has a huge value I think which has not been mentioned - that companies, corporations, organisations use it to market and advertise themselves, for free.  Sometimes they do that under the covers, so to speak, and some users don't like it (e.g. hailcorporate) but often they will promote their products transparently, and often normal users don't mind. The most obvious example is Netflix on /r/movies. Multiple employees were observed continuously posting things to the site, via submissions, comments etc and users liked it.  By introducing a charge for these corporate users they can reap in a substantial income. Whether it would make sense for them to label these corp users as such is another option, but they certainly know about them. I find it interesting that most normal users find that they don't mind interacting with paid marketing employees and that they consider it organic and natural, very interesting. I also find it worrying.
Server at Local Applebee's here.   I used to work for the company in the 90s when I was in college. Last worked for them in 97. Cut to December 2016 and as a Stay At Home Dad I need a job. Get rehired and have been Serving again since.  I can confirm two things. One, people hated tipping 15% then and hate 20% that much more now. The amount of regulars we have that come in, eat and leave no tip is significant.  Two, it's not the food, it's the people the company has hired to cook it. Here in NH we have the lowest unemployment in the US. My kitchen manager talks frequently about how they can't find anyone to hire. An Applebee's kitchen is absolutely waaaay more than a bank of microwaves and *needs* people who know how to broil steaks and grill burgers.    Want customers apparently want is Top Sirloin food and service at McDonalds prices, and the only way the company can provide that is to pay employees nothing. And then the company and the customers get what they pay for. Crap people.   Not sure how this cycle will get broken but it's a Death Spiral if they don't.
"The treatment of employees has found a new low with the use of technology. I was especially appalled by Jamba Juice who schedules down to 15 minute increments with part time employees. Their rational is that it saves the company money and their employees do not have the""same energy and enthusiam"" during the second half of a shift.  I own my company and have had the same employees for over 24 years. Through good times and bad, they have always given me superior work with 150% effort. Clients ask me how I retain these great people. Here is the secret-it is in the form of a story.  Two sled dog teams are in a race in the wilderness of Alaska-food is low and conditions are bad. Every night one of the mushers made sure his dogs were feed and bedded down first before he took care of himself with what little was left. He loved his dogs and cared about his dogs well being. Every morning the dogs got up and pulled the sled through the deep snow. They brought their master to the end of the race and saved his life.   Every night the other musher feed himself first and made sure he was warm, after that he took care of his dogs with what little was left. Some of his dogs eventually ran away and some of his dogs died. There were not enough dogs left to pull the sled and the musher froze to death in the Alaska wilderness. Some of the last dogs ate him to survive.  I doubt Ms.Rosser and Ms.Luey from Jamba Juice will grasp the moral of this story. I am sure their turn over of employees is very high and the true cost of retraining new employees is not factored in to their fantastic business plan. I find my clients are well pleased in part because they are assured they will have the services of my same employees who they know and trust to do a great job. My employees have increased my business and its bottom line.  Advice to Ms. Rosser and Ms. Luey: 1) You best be perky and enthusiastic in the afternoon or a computer program may tell your boss to demote you and cut your pay. 2) You better hope Kronos Company is not hired by Jamba Juice to create a program which does your jobs better and your services are no longer needed. 3) Watch your back and if you feel someone chewing on your leg, you now know the reason why."
I got paid less than Walmart's starting rate while working an hourly position at Kohl's and at Target, so I've never understood the overwhelming distaste for Walmart's employee treatment. Is it more of how managers at the store level treat employees rather than their pay?
It really depends.  How often will this thing go down?  How much cleaning will it need?  If this thing needs cleaning once per day, You could hire someone to come in at nights and clean multiple stores.   If these things don't go down multiple times a day, then one person in reserve could service multiple locations pretty easily.
"Definitely not what I'm saying, I'm saying that instead of some of these companies spending 70% of their earnings on stock buybacks they should reinvest that money into their employees and pay out larger dividends to shareholders. I understand share repurchases are fine when not done in excess, but right now it's in excess to manipulate EPS and hit targets. You're missing the point, I'm not talking about the  ""NPV of a random project"".   Edit: this article I just found explains perfectly what I'm talking about: https://amp.businessinsider.com/whats-a-buyback-and-why-do-some-investors-hate-them-2016-6"
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Some people would think that the government should mandate that Walmart pay their employees more.   However, that won't stop other companies from pushing the cost of business unto taxpayers. It seems that Walmart is acting perfectly rational as a business would.  I think the better solution would be to stop enabling these companies with a backdoor subsidy and stop giving out free money and handouts to people. When people realize they won't get free money from the government, they will demand better wages from companies or won't bother to work there.  The best solution, which runs counter-intuitive to the previous solution, and the one I'm leaning towards, is http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee . It is completely transparent and eliminates the need for every other government program. Then people could work at Walmart for fun, or Walmart could offer a wage that was enticing.
&gt;I'm talking about the manufacturers profits and employees.  You only talked about manufactures not employees.  Tho what employees have anything to do here is beyond me.  &gt; Costco tends to use their consumers and distribution access to their advantage and often at the expense of manufacturers.  As they should.  But as I said, they are not Walmart.  Costco isn't going to push a supplier to make their product as cheap as possible because they know their customers don't want Walmart quality stuff.  This means they aren't going to push the supplier as nearly as badly as Walmart will.  &gt;A large producer like my employer have and will tell costco to go fuck themselves.  They do that and they lose any possible profits from Costco.
That is because they don't pay enough. Sure you can get good money in a union from a large urban center, but that is only a fraction of the trade jobs and they never have problems finding workers for decent unions. What they want is someone with experience that will work for an apprentice pay but work at a master's pace. Then the larger unionized companies just use the 'shortage' to hire foreign workers at a fraction of the wage exasperating the problem.
Well, there has to be a compromise, that's for sure. But surely you would agree that the people who take the lion's pie of the risk should also take the lion's pie of the profits. Just because one of their companies has turned profitable, it does not follow that somehow other stakeholders should now deserve a bigger piece of the pie. These shareholders probably have stakes in hundreds of other companies that failed, they lost their money, but the employees and executives there got paid, right? Well, you win some, you lose some. But again, when you take most of the risk, you have to take most of of the profits, because from an individual's perspective, you need to have a positive EV from all your investments on average, otherwise you wouldn't invest at all.  Do you think that this would be better for all those workers?