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Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life.

Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life.

“Winning requires hard work. I believe that most of us, being ambitious individuals, find fulfillment in the joy of seeing our efforts materialize into tangible results,” CEO Niraj Shah said in a note to employees earlier this month celebrating the company’s recent success, and which a company spokesperson confirmed to CNN. “Working long hours, being responsive, blending work and life, is not anything to shy away from. There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.”

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    471·
    11 months ago

    Harder work and longer hours requires increased compensation you greedy bastard.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      191·
      11 months ago

      It does come with increased compensation. Specifically, for the C-suite executives who get a nice bonus for all their hard work in making the company more profitable. Demanding other people work harder is hard work, after all /s

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
    441·
    11 months ago

    1. The whole point of engineering is to make our lives lazier, you fucking kumquat. Working harder has rarely been rewarded over working smarter except by room temperature IQ CEOs.

    2. Did they say this in between golfing? Or while traveling on a private jet? They see all of that as proper work and business. If playing golf is actually doing business then pay me overtime for doing the back 9 in my free time.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      Wayfair is just a consolidated virtual storefront for thousands of small companies that wouldn’t have been able to afford an online presence on their own. It’s a cool concept, there is a reason they seemed to come from nowhere and properly compete with established services. But it also means product quality and level of customer service are gonna be all over the place, though averaging out to be quite poor on both fronts.

      My parents have been burned so many times with ordering from wayfair. Mostly by stuff arriving broken from not being packed properly for shipping, but also alot of deceptive marketing. The wayfair virtual storefront doesn’t seem to do a very good job of policing their back-end clients.

      • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve found nicer stuff there at affordable prices vs most furniture stores and it’s better than going round Amazon. There’s always 5 stores with identical photos selling what looks like the same thing and reviews are high for one and low for others so it’s kind of hard to know what you’re buying. Finding stuff takes a fair amount of work but most of what I’ve gotten is good.

        But every now and then the box arrives and a corner is ripped off so random parts have fallen out in transit and others are scratched. Wayfair is generally good about resolving issues like that but it’s a pain to deal with.

  • PugJesus@kbin.social
    20·
    11 months ago

    There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success.

    I feel like that’s very much not true. Laziness is the mother of invention, after all.

  • RotatingParts@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    The low level workers work harder but don’t get the rewards for their hard work. Those rewards go to the upper levels of the company. Of course the CEO wants employees to work more. He will benefit more than they will.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      And the satisfaction of knowing that your boss profits more and gets to keep his well deserved yacht!

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    12·
    11 months ago

    His net worth went from 1.6 billion dollars to $600 million, which is why he wants other people to work harder. 😒

  • lobotomo@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 months ago

    My wife left wayfair and got a job at the exact same level at three times the salary. Perhaps he should better compensate his employees.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    Working hard is the very opposite of Efficiency - the object is to produce more in less time, not spent more time to achieve just the baseline results.

    In my experience, the places were you have to “work hard” (invariably without extra pay for it) are the ones where either middle management is shit and you’re working extra to make up for day-to-day their incompetence and/or high level management is shit (and their profitability “strategy” is to the short-term of reducing costs by cutting manpower well below what is appropriate for the operation, rather than process improvement, capital and training investmentment to improve efficiency) and you’re working extra to make up for their incompetence.

    Either way, it’s the worst paid people sacrificing themselves to make up for the incompetence of better paid ones.

    Anybody with in demand skills in such a company should GTFO as you really can’t correct structural problems due to incompetence of the higher-ups and arent paid to make them your problem.

  • pageflight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    11 months ago

    There is not a lot of history of laziness unionizing being rewarded with success.

    FTFY