How it should work if companies cared about anything beyond the next quarterly report.

After my former employer's economic forecast did an abrupt sharp downturn, I went from being a highly desirable employee to extremely undesirable in the space of less than a week. Add to that a performance limiting on-the-job injury and being the highest paid person in my department.

Guess who was terminated the day before their stock and annual bonus was to be awarded.

it still shifts the power into the hands of the employer, like providing basic acceptable working conditions becomes a perk, when it's just something that should be universal and normalized.

Race to the bottom, bare minimum it is then

in reality an employer doing this struggles to keep reliable and quality staff.

The same could be said about PTO, but...

That's what prison labor is for. All those issues vanish. And it's by design.

That's more true in the more skilled the job is.

In entry level jobs where people are desperate, it gets a lot less favorable for the employee.

Really it's the same argument as a minimum wage

AI don't want no break