Sunday, April 26, 2015

Is providing benefits a demonstration of good character or a method of control?

     People have given accolades to companies such as Google for its benefits to employees. Such things include free access to rental cars, free gyms on campus, and free breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In addition they even have access to Google technology that have not been released in order to get work done (Google Employees Reveal Their Favorite Perks Working For The Company
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-favorite-perks-2013-3?op=1#ixzz3YS1vOUOA)
. However, a rather theoretical argument ensues such work atmospheres. Due to the amount of benefits offered to the employees, one can argue that this allows managers or the bosses to take advantage of employees such as give them wages in an untimely manner. Would it be sufficient to say that people would be less willing to request their wages because of the exceeding amount of benefits that they receive? Does this at all seem like a form of exploitation of workers?

1 comment:

  1. I can see this as employees conforming to certain things. Employees may feel that their employer is doing so much for them. This may be a reason why employees may conform with the actions of their employers. This may create a sense of debt, as employees see all of the benefits, they may accept wages in an untimely. manner.

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