this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
1346 points (97.9% liked)

Technology

60079 readers
3334 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You’re right that stock price is something.

Companies serve three groups:

  1. customers
  2. staff
  3. shareholders

Stock price measures #3. And one out of three is a pretty shitty overall score.

Before someone tells me that shareholders are everything, and that this is capitalism, I understand your point but if any of 1, 2, or 3 stop participating, the company stops functioning. All three must be served. You just waved aside staff as a bag of feelings, but they literally do everything at the company.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Companies don't serve staff. Staff is a necessary evil to them.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah yeah. You’re saying that corporate leaders don’t care about people, and we all know that. But the company has to offer staff something to come in and work, right? They get paid right? I’m not saying everyone needs to get desk massages and blow jobs. But there has to be something in it for the staff or there is no company. It sucks to work somewhere that the staff get bare minimum. But the best companies in the world offer a lot more than that, because talent is worth it.