Work Reform
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
I'm having a hard time imagining that creating shareholder value was ever a motivation for those working on the floor.
At least one founder and former CEO agrees that the idea of boosting shareholders' returns isn't likely to be a key motivator to workers these days. Ron Shaich, Panera Bread's founder and former longtime CEO, has stressed how important it is for management and members of the C-suite to empathize with their employees and better understand what can get their buy-in to the company's mission.
"No employee ever wakes up and says, 'I'm so excited. I made another penny a share today for Panera's shareholders,'" Shaich told Business Insider in an interview. "Nobody cares. You don't care whether your CEO comes or goes."
What a click bait bullshit title. The person never said what they are implying they said.
To be fair, there isn't really anything in the title to imply that. It's just what people are primed to infer.
Nah, that title knows what the fuck it's implying and it's doing it for the clicks.
They might know people will infer that. But that's still not in the text itself. And insisting it is requires mind reading.
One should always keep Hanlon's Razor in mind.
He makes some good points and some bad ones. But I bet we'd all be happier if we worked for employee-owned businesses with no shareholders or executives at all.
Fuck the shareholders I’m here to not starve not enrich them
Rage bait headline does its job I guess.
He wasn't saying that in a way that's negative towards workers but towards CEOs. He's right, no one cares about enriching the fat cats.
I’m not speaking in response to the article but to those the article is talking about, you know, the ones who do whatever it takes to get those record quarterly profits
Yeah no fucking shit. Even the big-picture, meta sort of "a successful business rewards its employees" doesn't hold water these days because everyone in entry-level jobs will tell you that things get worse and more complicated the bigger the company gets.
Did anyone here read the article?
He's not saying "those lazy peasants should know their only purpose is to make me richer and be happy about it", he's saying "obviously nobody will be motivated by making some rich jerks richer while getting paid peanuts".
Unfortunately in the second half he goes into out of touch CEO mode, but the quote on the ragebait title is actually very reasonable
Yeah I read the headline and thought this had to be an onion article, glad it's a little more positive ig
As someone with a master of I/O psychology degree, there are some organizations that hire individuals with a psych background to assist in creating a healthy, psychologically safe, workplace environment.
That said, in talking with others in the field the "make our employees mentally healthy," quickly devolves into "use your psycho head games to make our employees do what we want."
It's kinda crazy that this is such a business-world revelation. Wow. Deep thoughts, my guy.
C-suiters really need therapists to explain working class life to them so they can learn the capacity to empathize.
Sorry, neo-feudalist-gilded-age-run-by-socipaths-says-what?
Therapists. hire teachers.
Is this a joke?
It's clickbait