New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What about a job site that showed bid/ask spread for wages?
Ask HN: What about a job site that showed bid/ask spread for wages?
3 by janalsncm | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Maybe this is a dumb idea, but I think it would be interesting, if only as an experiment. Workers can have a hard time finding work, and employers have a hard time finding employees. Maybe full transparency can shine a light on what’s really happening. The idea is, show the bid/ask spread for time. Workers are selling time, companies are buying it. Of course, broad categories of jobs will be separated from each other. A bid ask spread looks like this: https://ift.tt/caoxiIP There are a few complications: 1. Employers don’t want to share their bid. Well, the law might require them to. 2. Workers might have variable ask. Fair, since it matters if they have to commute and what the role is exactly. That can potentially be countered with a formula. (I’m willing to commute X minutes for Y more dollars per hour, I’m willing to relocate for Z more dollars where Z could be infinity, etc) 3. Jobs are variable and people are variable so time is hard to price. This is true but maybe a close match is good enough to merit an interview.
3 by janalsncm | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Maybe this is a dumb idea, but I think it would be interesting, if only as an experiment. Workers can have a hard time finding work, and employers have a hard time finding employees. Maybe full transparency can shine a light on what’s really happening. The idea is, show the bid/ask spread for time. Workers are selling time, companies are buying it. Of course, broad categories of jobs will be separated from each other. A bid ask spread looks like this: https://ift.tt/caoxiIP There are a few complications: 1. Employers don’t want to share their bid. Well, the law might require them to. 2. Workers might have variable ask. Fair, since it matters if they have to commute and what the role is exactly. That can potentially be countered with a formula. (I’m willing to commute X minutes for Y more dollars per hour, I’m willing to relocate for Z more dollars where Z could be infinity, etc) 3. Jobs are variable and people are variable so time is hard to price. This is true but maybe a close match is good enough to merit an interview.
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