Unsurprisingly, workers whose skills are in high demand and short supply (eg highly educated, highly experienced people) can demand better work conditions such as pay and commute flexibility.
Take somewhere like Starbucks. They pay them minimum wage, churn em constantly so they’re never trained and make them work arbitrary shifts like 4 hour -> 2 hour unpaid break -> additional 4 hours.
Those staff end up “low skilled” but in reality someone who was treated fairly and respected would get very good at running the shop. They’d be able to turn out twice as many drinks and they would actually care about running costs and cleanliness. You wouldn’t get the constant underlying corruption by mistreatment where they can’t be bothered to check stock levels and throw away a grand of material a week on inefficiency.
Problem is VCs don’t fund coffee shops, otherwise Starbucks would be “disrupted” overnight.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90867251/blank-street-coffee-rai...
Maybe someone else could have a strategy more like yours but it’s clearly not required.
An airline on the flip side cannot “try” this with their pilots.
Sure you can operate the machines and make a good drink, but what good is that if you have minimal influence over the menu?