How do you expect them to employ more and pay more? Not being sarcastic I'm genuinely asking because that seems difficult. Remember each employee requires paid training plus fees f0r every employee plus more employees means a bigger HR department. And even more important the more employees the less hours each one will receive only making them make less money.
My company has spent over $100,000 training me, now I’m at the point in my career where I work 60-90 hours per week and that’s fair. They made an initial investment, plus the ongoing overhead of carrying my pension, benefits, wages; if they want 100 hours per week I’m going to give it to them. If I don’t like it I can quit and go fold Tshirts at old navy.
And some municipalities tax them based on the number of employees they have. Comp insurance is based on payroll dollars. Medical insurance is excruciatingly expensive for employers right now.
They could pay more and employ more by: controlling expenditures, not giving ridiculous bonuses to the CEO and upper management, using some of their profits and tax breaks, I'm sure that other people can come up with more. Another way would be purely to reduce stress on the employees by not taking on more work than the company's employees can handle.
Everyone always points to the CEO bonuses as a great place to cut costs, but, they never actually look at what that means.
Right now, competition for top notch CEOs is at an all time high, and the hiring of a big name CEO can drive stock prices higher, creating more value for the shareholders. Having a crappy CEO means that your company goes under at worst, and the share price goes down at best, meaning less value for the company.
CEOs actually work for their pay, they don't just sit on their laurels raking in cash and laughing at the little people. If a CEO is willing to give up some of their bonus to the employees, fine, but don't go demanding it, they're worth all they can get, just like employees are.
The higher you go in a company, the more responsibility you have. The more responsibility, the harder and more stressful your job is. The harder you have to work, the more you get paid. The better your company does because of your hard work, the bigger your bonus. It makes sense. It’s not like they are just sitting there watching TV in their office and playing pong on their computer. They are working hard like everyone else. It’s just a different kind of hard work.
Not all companies give CEOS bonuses. And asking employees to work less could be more stressful because then they cant make enough money. I make more than eleven dollars an hour but I still ask my coworkers to give me more hours all the time. If my job cut my hours I wouldn't be able to survive.
The CEO of WalMart made $22,800,000 in salary and bonuses last year. WalMart employs 2,200,000 people. If the CEO somehow could work for free every employee would receive an extra $10.36 annually (about 20 cents weekly). First guest needs to stop listening to Bernie.
My company has an antis-stress initiative. Most of everyone's stress comes FROM our work, inadequate staffing, and then throwing people at a program so late that it appears to have the right number of people but the new ones aren't trained.
We also had a "get up and walk away from your desk at 4:00" day, mirroring a national day by that name or something similar. Of course, the work doesn't go away. There was also a "half day" thing where, for our own mental health, we were supposed to take a half day off. But, unless you used a half day of vacation time, you had to pay (I think $60) to do so. Wtf?
Apparently, saying the right things is what counts.
Right now, competition for top notch CEOs is at an all time high, and the hiring of a big name CEO can drive stock prices higher, creating more value for the shareholders. Having a crappy CEO means that your company goes under at worst, and the share price goes down at best, meaning less value for the company.
CEOs actually work for their pay, they don't just sit on their laurels raking in cash and laughing at the little people. If a CEO is willing to give up some of their bonus to the employees, fine, but don't go demanding it, they're worth all they can get, just like employees are.
We also had a "get up and walk away from your desk at 4:00" day, mirroring a national day by that name or something similar. Of course, the work doesn't go away. There was also a "half day" thing where, for our own mental health, we were supposed to take a half day off. But, unless you used a half day of vacation time, you had to pay (I think $60) to do so. Wtf?
Apparently, saying the right things is what counts.