Christmas_Man (christmas_man@thebag.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 04:15:49 JST
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This makes me think of what I've been seeing a lot of lately as I'm looking at returning to the labor force after taking a sabbatical. I work in physical infrastructure/utilities and have noticed that the larger, higher paying companies that have gotten all the government contracts are hiring for cultural fits to their companies and willingness to take on more generic collateral duties vs competence for the specific role they're filling. Smaller companies that are more focused in their field have a narrower window of what they're asking for; they overall ask less from their employees, but they pay less while offering a higher quality of service to their customer for the same cost. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens to critical infrastructure as the high competence, high skill workers eventually all leave the megacorps due to no longer checking all the boxes that HR asks them to.