Thread: Microsoft to charge rent for office desks

Microsoft execs have also claimed that everytime a foreign replacement worker is hired "five American jobs are created"; that is the same as saying that everytime an American worker is fired from his job, five new jobs are created. No sense. No logic. Now we have Obama saying that when a terrorist gets through "the system worked". Is Obama renting the executive model?

http://blog.washtech.org/?p=123

23Next in externalizing costs: Pay rent for your desk at work?

written by admin- October 23rd, 2009

Remember several months back when Microsoft forced its contingent staff (also known as contractors or permatemps) to take a 10% pay cut? This same pay cut ended up being quite a bit more than 10% for many, especially for those who were forced to leave a contract and come back under a new contract.

Well, apparently Microsoft isn’t done in it’s quest to increase its bottom line. The last pay cut drew a lot of negative publicity, since Microsoft was seen as taking advantage of the weak economy and in turn, hurting the local economy even more. So, Microsoft is looking to use a more indirect approach by externalizing more of its costs.

Rumor has it that Microsoft is going to require its contractors who are categorized as “Vendorsâ€

"vendors"??? LOL!!!


These are just misclassified employee!
Labeled subcontractor/vendor to prey on them.