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But what does that mean to the company and its employees?

So, companies don't want to take risks on employees that they don't think will work out in the end.

My last 3 jobs have had a pretty equal number of credentialed and uncredentialed employees.

If you can't compete on the labor market fairly, you deserve to lose employees.

Such people are not worthless, but as employees they are worth significantly less than people who demonstrably have both experience and skill.

Now I believe that the purpose of a business to to make its employees happy.

I specifically mentioned AirBnB is not one of the companies screwing their employees in the name of profits, but Uber/TaskRabbit/etc most certainly are.

> In more than half of Nike's factories, the report said, employees worked more than 60 hours a week.

We can relocate employees from pretty much anywhere.

Company culture and benefits: * Happy and empowered employees: be kind, work hard, work smart, and live a balanced life.

We have offices in Ithaca, NY and Madison, WI but will consider remote employees for most positions.

The additional utility offered by collective bargaining for programmers is probably not larger than the negative utility of having to pay a middleman army of union organizers, employees and lawyers.

"The stock price need not matter at all to the company" Tell that to the employees holding options.

I don't think there's much to cheer about when the reason many of these sharing companies are so profitable is because they basically eliminate using employees for their "unskilled"(read: job markets with an excess of employable people) labor.

"Unions give skilled labor immensely greater negotiation leverage, as the alternative for employers would be hiring lower skilled workers." Most higher-skilled employees want to maximize their pay.