cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15395224

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It sounds obvious on the surface but higher wages don’t always equal happier staff or more output.

    I don’t think the staff making 500k at OpenAI will be measurably happier with another 100k, for example.

    But there is definitely a lot to be gained by getting staff as far away from a sense of poverty as possible and ikea might have helped their line workers a lot with this change.

    • moon@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Boulders lined the side of the road foretelling what could come next.