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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Yea ... this! It's a general pattern to keep a look out for across the board. How many things are being "put onto the employee" through culture, language and established practices.
You may find a bunch of things both specifically in your workplace and your culture generally.
Things like performance reviews, how promotion cycles are managed, what kinds if incompetence are tolerated and what kinds aren't, how consistently "accountability" is used, what feedback channels exist and don't exist, what groups of people are enabled to form entities and which aren't ... etc etc. You'll find it's everywhere and many aren't even capable of seeing it.
Don't forget when someone is fired or quite and they spread their workload to the rest of the team, and never hire a replacement. That's a classic as well.
We should write a bunch of articles about “quiet downsizing”