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