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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/15395224

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow crazy how could we have predicted this

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Everyone. If capitalists believed their own free market economics they could have predict it with their own theories. High wages will attract the most people and keep them around longer as labor is part of the supply and demand curves.