In the United States, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has laid off some employees at WhatsApp and Instagram and is cracking down on additional allowances provided by companies. The goal is to find reasons for dismissal through the so-called Perk Police.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an increasing number of large Silicon Valley companies are hiring special police officers to catch minor embezzlement and deception by employees through the company’s financial management and automated systems.
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Typical examples include using an office printer to do your child’s homework or scrolling through online shopping during an all-Zoom meeting.
In their drive for efficiency, large corporations are deploying special police officers to crack down on employees for seemingly minor infractions that could result in dismissal under company law.
A Mehta spokesperson said in a statement that some team changes are being made to align with long-term goals and strategies. Mehta fired about 20 employees at its Los Angeles office for using $25 (about 34,000 won) in food credit to purchase household items such as acne pads, wine glasses, and laundry detergent.
Meta provides free meals to employees working at its Silicon Valley headquarters, and credits that can be used on order delivery platform Uber Eats to employees working in small offices without an on-site cafeteria.
However, some employees said they saved up this credit or used the meal credit, which was meant for the office, to have meals delivered to their homes. Some are also said to have purchased household items.
An employee who was fired after these facts were discovered said, “When the human resources team was conducting an investigation, I acknowledged this practice, but then I was suddenly fired,” he wrote in Blind, adding, “It’s surreal that something like this is happening.”
Not just Silicon Valley companies. This year, U.S. supermarket Target fired an employee who appeared to be standing in line ahead of the general public to buy Stanley tumblers sold by the company. As Stanley tumblers have become more popular throughout this year, there has been an incident where a woman stole 65 Stanley tumblers from a supermarket and ran away.
Ernst & Young, which provides accounting, consulting and other services, fired employees who were caught watching multiple training videos at the same time.
In Korea, the number of office workers in their 40s and 50s moving to subsidiaries or retiring due to honorary retirement is increasing. As a result of analyzing the National Statistical Office’s microdata, the proportion of ‘involuntary’ unemployed people among unemployed people in their 40s and 50s (leaving their jobs within a year) this year (as of the end of the first half of the year) was calculated to be 50.8%.
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