1. Smart ass company makes employees bid for schedules via the employee app
2. A whole market develops for paid bots that can get the best spots faster than anyone else
3. Since humans can't get good spots, all employees now pay for bots.
4. Since there aren't enough good spots for everybody, the market develops a dutch auction feature for the bots.
5. Bot expenses skyrocket.
6. Employees expense bot costs back to the company
7. Fully-loaded employee cost rises
8. Company decides to automate everything because "humans are too expensive".
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Amazon?
What is this nightmare?
There's many companies I know of where the 1-3 dynamic happens, but I don't get what you mean by 4. And 6 never happens. And it's always "independent contractors", not employees.
Also the obvious answer is to just host a dutch auction for each individual job, but no company has the balls to actually do this. They would rather let people compete for scarce work rather than let them bid the work down to zero and get super cheap labor in the process.
Acho que não é assim que vai acontever