Originally published at: Sega gives employees a 30% raise across the board | Boing Boing
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Hopefully it’s a significant enough raise. As Billy Preston said, “Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’”.
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I remember that when I first started working, I got steady raises quarterly. Now, annual and 90% of what I get rated on happens in the last month before the year ends. Heck, I worked the hardest I ever did last year, including managing what was described as an “apocalyptical scenario never before seen in the history of the company” with complete coolness for over 6 months to the point of getting bonuses…yet that was less than a full sentence in my review.
Also, not sure why your average Joe gets 3% bump if he’s lucky and the average CEO gets 20%. If Joe leaves, the CEO ain’t doing his work.
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A loooooot of talent left my workplace last fall, and management decided they needed to do something about it. I ended up getting a 20% raise out of it. It motivated me far more than “free pizza in the breakroom.”
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I just got a promotion and a small raise. yay, but I think inflation more or less made it equal. 
I did move to Mint Mobile from ATT and that is saving some money!
Anyway - doesn’t Japan have laws that cap CEO salaries based on a percentage of what others make?
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If you’re to post a picture from Yakuza 0, you may as well do it right:
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I don’t want to seem disaproving of Sega’s giving more money to the workers. Good for them, kudos!
But consider this: percentage raises are ones of the ways that money continues to consolidate at the top. Inflation and cost of living are extremely unevenly distributed; and they hit lower incomes harder. A more socially responsible scheme would look more like this - let’s say you’ve decided corporate profits can provide a 30% raise across the board. OK, take that monetary amount, divide it by the number of employees, and give them all the same raise - so the janitor (who is a critically important employee who is hit much harder by food and fuel cost increases than the CEO) gets a 50% raise, while the CEO only gets a 1% raise, because they both get the same dollar amount. That is distributing the money so it will do the most good, not just for the company but for society as a whole.
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What this says to me though, is that they’ve been underpaying their employees by a HUGE amount up until now. It’s a great move but this should never happen.
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No, they just do that on their own. When Carlos Ghosn was making the equivalent of 10M USD at Nissan, that was scandalous.
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TODAY I LEARNED: “Sega” still exists 
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