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No 10 Adviser Attacks 'Socialist' Vince Cable
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Hadn't realised it was a freedom issue. Wouldn't want to trample on the right of the British boss to give expression to the view that all workers are pond scum.
Not ALL British workers are pond scum.
I would suggest that the vast majority would not be considered for employment by Google though.0 -
Hadn't realised it was a freedom issue. Wouldn't want to trample on the right of the British boss to give expression to the view that all workers are pond scum.
Your hatred of British employers is utterly pathetic. Why don't you go & create some jobs instead of whining about the people who do. Then you might have something to say that's worth listening to.0 -
It was on BBC Click that gets shown on BBC News, probably get it on iplayer.grizzly1911 wrote: »Do you have a link available?0 -
It's true their employee model is very good, a lot of successful firms now do similar things which is good and their results are obvious in their productivity levels increasing.Interesting item on News 24 (again and again and again) about how Google treats its employees, to maximise their productivity. It's about as far from British Tory greengrocer mentality as it's possible to get. Hasn't done Google any harm though.
Others on here may see it as being wasteful as they want cuts so that employees feel the pain.0 -
It's true their employee model is very good, a lot of successful firms now do similar things which is good and their results are obvious in their productivity levels increasing.
Others on here may see it as being wasteful as they want cuts so that employees feel the pain.
Google only recruit the highly motivated cream and pay very high salaries.
Bit like merchant banks.
They are different to the "normal" employment situation.0 -
Quite.Google only recruit the highly motivated cream and pay very high salaries.
Bit like merchant banks.
They are different to the "normal" employment situation.
I guess all their staff are the highly motivated cream who get paid very high salaries a bit like merchant banks because they all have high flying roles. Even the admin staff, the canteen staff and the people in the mail room are the cream of their specific job sector.
No wait...0 -
I think this started with them doing all the whining.Your hatred of British employers is utterly pathetic. Why don't you go & create some jobs instead of whining about the people who do."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
I think this started with them doing all the whining.
No it didn't & you miss the point entirely (as do Labour & their various Union lackeys). The Government doesn't get to dictate to employers. All they get to do is dictate to companies that choose to employ people in the UK. When you make the environment unfavourable enough large employers can & do simply employ in other countries where it makes better business sense. Employers have no need to whine, it's a free market & they can setup business where they choose. It's in all of our interests that they choose the UK.0 -
Notice how Union types have never created a dime of real wealth or a wealth creating job in thier lives. Thier world view comes from a 6th form economics course.
There are many people who are or have been in unions who have manufactured things for example those producing the Astra.
Do pray tell me what a mortgage advisor has ever created?Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
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I'm neither a Tory voter nor foaming at the mouth, however are you seriously saying you don't see the correlation between reduction on the laws controlling employers and those same employers hiring more people? There's nothing complicated about it. Every law that's introduced increases the cost of employing people & makes it make less business sense to do so. We're talking simple business facts here, not moral rights & wrongs.
Taking this to the logical conclusion you could allow employers to treat workers as slaves......
You may not vote but you are certainly a ToryFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0
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