Posted 9/14/2023, 4:07:09 AM
Millionaire CEO's Call for 50% Unemployment Sparks Outrage
- Millionaire CEO Tim Gurner said unemployment should rise to 50% to cause "pain" and make workers less "arrogant"
- He claimed productivity dropped during COVID as people "didn't want to work"
- His comments sparked backlash, with politicians and leaders calling him greedy and out of touch
- He said high unemployment would make employees realize employers are lucky to have them
- At 3.6%, Australia's unemployment would rise by 250K people under his proposal