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Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb" (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I do not disagree with you, but keep in mind that most countries on the planet has up to several workers rights written into law, with the US as the only exception in the western world. So at least from the outside looking in, if company was not mentioned, I'd assume a US company immediately.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    While it's true the US is the worst example in the western world, with generally speaking no workers' rights, in my experience (in the EU) workers' rights have steadily eroded over at least the last decade.

    Always online expectations, zero hour contracts, expectations of unpaid overtime, gig economy, salaries "under the table", food vouchers (instead of pay in order to avoid taxes) have become practically the norm where I come from. Recently shipping workers from overseas (mostly India and Uzbekistan) and paying them half a minimum wage (illegally ofc) has become quite popular too.

    So yeah, while there are some workers protections written in the law, in practice they seem to matter less and less.

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