{"id":120,"date":"2008-09-28T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T04:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-09-28T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T04:19:52","slug":"cost-of-firing-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Cost of firing workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\">Economist.com<\/a>\u00a0and I found some interesting charts, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/research\/articlesBySubject\/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&amp;story_id=12209771\">this one<\/a> that shows how many weeks of pay a company has to give an employee for letting them go. Talk about crazy&#8230;in Zimbabwe a company has to give out over EIGHT YEARS worth of compensation to an employee. Why would you even remotely care about doing a good job? You&#8217;d probably even want to be work a few months, get fired, then take an 8 year vacation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America, New Zealand and Tonga are among the most company-friendly countries, requiring no penalties or compensation to fire a full-time employee of 20 years. By contrast, a business in Zimbabwe must shell out well over eight years&#8217; worth of pay to sack a worker. But companies in Venezuela and Bolivia are even more tied\u2014workers there cannot be fired at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poking around at Economist.com\u00a0and I found some interesting charts, like this one that shows how many weeks of pay a company has to give an employee for letting them go. Talk about crazy&#8230;in Zimbabwe a company has to give out over EIGHT YEARS worth of compensation to an employee. Why would you even remotely care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,36],"tags":[234,271,235,233,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianschettler.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}