High-Paid Workers Are Getting Paid To Do Nothing

Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop: https://thehustle.co/ Are workers just lazy, or are managers to blame for the lack of work their employees have to do? Insider spoke to a former Amazon research scientist who earned $300k+/year doing squat. Vox reported on a man in fintech who spends most of his day on naps, housework, and TV. Both were down to work, but no one gave them anything to do. Why not ask for more? In 2023 alone, 216k+ tech workers have been laid off as the pandemic’s everything-online era has cooled. People aren’t exactly keen to announce there’s not enough work for their position.