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In reply to the discussion: Costco vs. Walmart - Lessons from investing in employees [View all]Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)Much of what the article explains is what Amazon does (or at least did when I worked for them).
There are a lot of things that I don't like about Amazon, but they always paid everyone respectable wages, shared restricted stock units to even the lowest hourly employees, sought their input with ideas for increasing productivity, and made sure that you worked at least 40 hours a week. Their pay wasn't the top payer in our area, but for the work that the employees did, they were paid better than 75% of their peers in the same jobs in the same area.
The way that Amazon fights unions is by giving everything that employees want so that they don't need to unionize in order to get it. There was starting to be some grumblings about low wages in our building. Management took that very seriously and gave everyone a raise.
Maybe walmart should learn from this lesson.
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