It was inevitable. Also those new pokemon designs are fucking garbage
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Its because corporations both don't understand and then refuse to understand why their employees are so miserable and fail at retention.
Someone gave them the mind virus that more "community" and "training" and all that jazz is the real key to keeping employees, and they've never let up since. There was a viral image of some guys management training where they taught that pizza parties are better at keeping employees than literal pay increases.
Because that's what it is at the heart of it. Companies don't want to give the only two things that matter out, more money and less hours, so they want to pretend like they are "working on it" by giving you the little side benefits while ignoring any of the ones that might take effort.
I mean, it depends on worker intelligence.
Most of the workforce literally will feel a lot better about their job despite being underpaid if they get weekly pizza parties.
A lot of people aren't very good at thinking.
That said, the failure at retention very much is a management issue. Both the phenomena of The Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting are almost entirely at the fault of terrible middle managers and high tension work environments, which also includes the woke culture where people are afraid to say what they think or speak to certain "individuals" because they assume the worst of every statement and attempt to weaponize it if you don't 'fit in'.
Long hours and low pay (leading to home stress which means you don't get to burn out your work stress) are origin point issues. If those are weighing you down, the pizza won't do much beyond bandaid it for a few days, if it doesn't feel downright insulting. Which means the job will need weekly pizza, which then diminishes its special feel and its back to square one except now the company is out a few hundred a week.
So, while its great for getting through temporary tough times (like a seasonal rush or a huge contract), it won't fix major systemic issues regardless of how dumb the worker is.
The problem is that most people who are underpaid aren't aware that they're underpaid: that the person next to them that was hired 2 years after them is getting paid 20% more for the same work, despite less experience.
And both of them are still underpaid.
In terms of their actual value and what they should be paid they won't know. All they will know is that they can't afford increasingly more things they feel they should be able to, including basic bills.
Which is the growing reality for a lot of people as inflation continues to move massively out of control while most jobs have remained quite stagnant relatively.