Businesses need to stop cutting labor costs and start investing in people, says social impact investor Warren Valdmanis. In this perspective-shifting talk, he breaks down the essential ingredients of a “good” job — which is more than just the size of a paycheck — and shares why they’re key to building great companies.
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Super Socks
February 28, 2022 at 8:01 pm
Chillin
Super Socks
February 28, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Cool
Super Socks
February 28, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Also I got first comment
l0gic23
February 28, 2022 at 9:03 pm
@Super Socks what you win?
1 ꜱᴜʙ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ 2023? 🅥
February 28, 2022 at 8:09 pm
Literally to the 1% whos reading this, God bless you, and may your dreams come true, stay safe and have a wonderful day. 💕s
Thu Thuỷ Phạm
February 28, 2022 at 11:55 pm
That is for true
Boarding Aisle
February 28, 2022 at 8:14 pm
oftentimes, it is not the job that you hate, but the boss who’s running behind. When your boss think of its employees is just a part of the pie chart, or just a cell in the spreadhsheet, harmony between the ranks starts to crumble. Management must be thoughtful that employees is also human – it have emotions and needs trusting support.
Zenn Exile
February 28, 2022 at 9:40 pm
As an employee you are nothing but a labor printer. If you need service and that service is cheaper than buying a new printer, you get serviced. Otherwise, you’re trash that just hasn’t been thrown away yet. People do not matter to the corporate model. Only productivity matters. And treating people well is not how you keep productivity up. Taking away their benefits, paying them steadily less year after year, and destroying the planet they all need to live on seems to be more than enough motivation to keep productivity sky rocketing while wages, health, and overall well being take a back seat to brutal economic inequality.
Al W
February 28, 2022 at 9:53 pm
Nah, lets treat them like robots.
/satire
楊小藍
March 1, 2022 at 9:29 am
In my country, if the employee’s boss is his/her father, the position and salary is always higher than average or brilliant talent owned employees. No fairness anymore , boss needs slaves but elites here in my place.
Astrid Mortensen
February 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm
🙂
Strangepete
February 28, 2022 at 8:53 pm
Most jobs: Going somewhere you don’t want to go, to do things you don’t like doing, while being around people you don’t want to be around, all for reasons you don’t really believe in, just in order to avoid becoming homeless and starving to death.
fiona fiona
February 28, 2022 at 9:48 pm
Glad to be in Germany, enabled to have better choices.
Al W
February 28, 2022 at 9:54 pm
Soultion: vote 3rd party.
Nick Sikes
March 1, 2022 at 12:28 pm
@Al W Better solution: find a different way of making money.
fiona fiona
February 28, 2022 at 9:46 pm
That example is soo creepy, I don’t want to be around people doing sports to begin with and “helpful” employees contributed to Germans like me refusing to shop at Walmart.
Those conditions were better meet at other local stores thought, so that may have contributed.
WildOnez
February 28, 2022 at 10:52 pm
Why give someone a low wage when they are literally the one who is making the money, minded the store, It’s ridiculous.
Brian Gara
March 1, 2022 at 1:13 am
I like the idea of labeling corporations with a number and everyone can see it
knifedog
March 1, 2022 at 2:18 am
when workers own da means of production
Huyen Thu
March 1, 2022 at 5:22 am
Thank you for this wonderful speech, lots to learn from.
Patrick Baek
March 1, 2022 at 8:42 am
Most people don’t have a career. They just have a job.
If you have a job that takes you about a year to get comfortable at work, that is the end of the first chapter in your career.
Longer you work there from then on, you are only multiplying the same number of experience. Consequently higher you are forced to go up the career ladder to level up your work experience, more the sacrifice you have to compromise.
You flip a burger for 6 months at McDonald and stay there for 3 years, you don’t have a 3 years of work experience. You just have 6 months of experience in flipping a burger 6 times.
That is a reality of work that most of us do for a living, not for a career.
The idea of having work-life balance stems from not having a true career.
A good job is the one that you are being surrounded by a group of people who are equally passionate about what they do.
Your happy work always comes at the expense of others like those janitors who clean up your office after you leave; unpaid interns; or in some cases, tax payers for those government-funded jobs.