Labour file:
An Ingenious Corporate Ploy to Appease the Soul-
searching Employees and Their Social Consciousness!
One of the key aspects of the
corporate business management
of transnational giant technology
corporations in this epoch of
imperialist globalisation is the so-
called human resource manage-
ment. This particular method of
management is aimed at earning
super profits through the
exploitation of the intellectual
labour power of the technical
employees by subduing them in to
programmed robots without
thinking about how and where their
labour power (intellectual) is being
used, to serve whose interests and
how they are impacting and
affecting the society at large etc.
Various methods have been
devised so as to control the
aptitude of the intellectual workers
(techies) to serve the sinister
purpose of corporate greed, by
clearly inculcating self-career
advancement motivation in to the
brains of these techies and their
attitudes, besides tactfully diverting
their minds from societal thinking
by keeping them apart from society
by infusing them with so-called
culture of technical intellectuals- a
separate section and class of
people, by dubiously glorifying
their intellectuality as if it was above
the society and its usual dynamics
based on its capitalist productive
relations. Particularly this type of
business management of H.R and
its practices have been developed
by the imperialist American
business management forces and
are widely implemented throughout
the world unquestioningly.
However some reports
suggest and it is becoming
apparent that even these so called
‘effective and efficient’ H.R
management practices couldn’t
April, May - 2019
totally shun the minds of these
intellectual techy workers from
thinking and that their social
consciousness is raising its heads
in their thinking and that many of
these technical workers have been
‘soul-searching’ about the nature
of the utility of their labour-power
in the service of war-mongering
imperialist interests; and started
feeling guilty unable to satisfy their
own human self-consciousness
about their role in society.
Recently workers across the
tech industry are forcing their
employers to reconsider how their
products are being used by the U.S.
government.
Microsoft employees protested
the company’s contract with the
immigration
and
customs
enforcement agency.
Workers at Amazon pushed
the firm stop selling facial
recognition services to law
enforcement agencies.
Thousands of employees of
Google signed a protest petition
against
building
“warfare-
technology” and Google was
forced to decide against a renewal
of contract to provide artificial
intelligence systems for the
pentagon.
Twitter employees have been
resenting against the manage-
ments so called policy of neutrality
to vital progressive movements.
They are protesting against Twitter
for making available to use Twitter
every day to infuse misogyny,
racial and conspiratorial thinking in
the main stream coverage-
particularly in U.S.A.
This is a progressive deve-
lopment among the techy-workers
and their thinking. We cannot
conclude with their limited activism
of the techy-employees that the
above tech firms have suddenly
woke up and that they would
abandon their pursuit of super-
profit-based fortunes in the large
interests of the society.
While such has been a hopeful
development happening among
employees of tech firms, APPLE
seems to have device and
implementing a better-plan to
appease the questioning social
consciousness of its soul-searching
employees.
Very recently during the
ongoing Martin Luther King day
celebrations, Apple grandly
announced that as a part of its
“giving” programme the amount
donated by its employees in 2018
to help non-profit organisations
globally exceeded $125 million with
over 2,50,000 hours of volunteer
work.
The I-Phone maker APPLE in
a blog-post had proudly announced
that it started the programme 3
years ago, where for every hour an
APPLE employee gives or dollar
they donate, the company provides
matching funds for both with
volunteer working across the globe
including in China. It also claims
that ‘Thirty-two Chinese organi-
sations are now eligible to receive
funds including the ‘China
Foundation for poverty alleviation’,
and that APPLE is one of the only
global companies matching
employee donations.
With such a ruse of ‘charity’
involving its employees APPLE is
very skilfully shooting two birds at
one shot. By making the employees
doling alms to beggars (charity), it
has appeased the soul-searching
employees from questioning the
policies of APPLE management
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