The Australia Desk · Story 10

Woolworths to offshore hundreds of corporate jobs

Close up of a Woolworths store entry sign with the green border and green W logo.
Image via r/australia

A top weekly thread from r/australia, drawing 1,049 score and 375 comments.

It rose to the top of The Australia Desk, making it a useful signal for what this audience argued about or shared this week.

Key details

  • r/australia ranked it at story 10 for The Australia Desk.
  • 375 Reddit comments were reported on the source post.

Discussion angles

  • What the headline says about the australia desk.
  • Why r/australia pushed it above surrounding stories.
  • Whether the discussion has broader relevance beyond the subreddit.

Top comments

The top 5 comments collected for this story carried 4,399 combined score. The quotes below are short excerpts from the highest-ranked visible comments.

Wait a second... one of the big guys who treats their consumers like chumps also treats their employees like chumps? I am shocked.
u/Warm_Championship726 · 1,269 score
This should be illegal, honestly. Its fucked so many Australians, this strategy. Its fucked me too, in a previous job. Australian business, Australian jobs. Fuck their lines going up, I don't give a shit....
u/Particular-Hat-8269 · 1,227 score
When they came for the night stockers, I did not speak out for I was not a night stocker. When they came to replace the checkout operators with self checkouts, I did not speak out for I was not on the checkouts....
u/Scumhook · 736 score
Isn’t hiring Australians, in the Australian supermarket duopoloy you are a part of, the absolute least you could do? It really demonstrates how corporations only optimise against one thing, quarterly financial reports. Nothing else matters.
u/CrouchingJaguar · 669 score
I'm no economist but I have always wondered what would happen if the Government had an offshoring tax where extra tax was applied to Australian companies with X amount of workers based outside of Australia.
u/Aussie-Ambo · 498 score
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