You need employees to care about their employer. This won't happen if the employer doesn't care about the employees first. I am not sure how true this is but I have a feeling a lot of the issues come from already successful businesses hiring MBAs who find and push for these worker optimizations that drive short term profits at the cost of eroding employee loyalty and company values. So maybe at the company level execs need to push back on viewing their employees as soulless automatons that need to be optimized. And at the nation level it would help if people didn't view continuous employment as vital to survival and separating health care from the employer (specific to the US) is a necessary step imo.