A friend of mine, who works as an HR manager at a MASSIVE corporation you likely know (you probably own their products), shared something deeply unsettling with me. She revealed how her company manipulates job listings to test how desperate people are for work. They’re testing how low they can go on salary and benefits before people stop applying.
 
Here’s a real-life example she shared with me, confidentially:
 
In April 2023, her company posted a job listing in Atlanta, offering a salary of $160K per year with benefits. They received over 6,000 applications in a single month.
 
In May, they lowered the salary to $130K. Still, over 6,000 people applied.
 
By June, the salary was dropped to $100K. Applications dropped slightly to 5,000.
 
In July, the listing was reduced to $80K, and applications dropped further to about 2,000.
 
In August, the salary remained at $80K, but the position was stripped of benefits like health insurance (beyond basic coverage), flexible work hours, employee discounts, and commuter perks. Despite these cuts, the company still received over 2,000 applications.
 
When she reported that the number of applicants remained steady despite cutting both salary and benefits, her company ordered her to repost the job at $70K. Once again, there was no significant drop in applicants.
 
The company then locked in the $70K salary and began reviewing candidates. They delayed hiring for two months and, in the meantime, laid off the employee who HAD been earning $160K for the same position who had been with the company for 14 years.
 
The new hire was less qualified and needed training, but they now saved the company $90K per year in salary alone.
 
Additionally, since the new hires are younger, the company's health insurance pool costs will begin to drop.
 
Her company has also been restructuring full-time roles by laying off employees and splitting their jobs into two or three part-time positions with no benefits or living wages. These part-time roles are reported to the government as "new jobs created," and this data is used to boost job growth statistics.
 
The “job creation” you keep hearing about isn’t what it seems.
 
These practices help companies cut costs and inflate their job creation numbers, all while shareholders reap the benefits.
 
Publicly traded companies are under constant pressure to deliver better returns to shareholders, and CEOs are desperate to keep their multi-million-dollar salaries and bonuses. This leads to cost-cutting measures like the ones described—cutting wages, reducing benefits, and splitting jobs—all while making it seem like the economy is booming with new opportunities.
 
Meanwhile, job-search platforms like Indeed are filled with these "ghost" job listings, used not to hire, but to test how little companies can pay and still attract skilled workers.
 
In addition, most HR departments are being asked to conduct an analysis of how many of the company positions could reasonably be worked remotely by people overseas for additional savings.
 
She shared with me that SOME positions that traditionally paid Americans $30 to $40 per hour, have been filled by people in “Asia” at a rate of around $2 to $5 per hour.
 
If we don’t wake up soon, we are ALL going to be wage slaves who can barely feed ourselves or our families.
 
These practices NEED to be exposed!!!
 
I’m calling to EVERY Human Resources manager to begin exposing these things…anonymously if need be.