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Profitability Through Low-Wage Labor Strategies
For many businesses where labor constitutes a significant portion of total costs, a common profitability strategy involves minimizing these expenses. This approach is particularly prevalent among large companies in sectors like retail and fast food, and can be executed through methods such as paying low wages, offering poor working conditions, offshoring production to lower-wage countries, or employing labor from the gig economy.
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