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If the technology is cheap enough that the employee or a group of employees could also buy one and compete against their own boss then its totally worth using your free time to take the free training. BUT if its a multi million dollar piece of equipment that only one company is using the "free training" value is dubious at best.
Nonsense, the employee trained has gained a new skill, which may help him find other jobs up the road.
Not if it is exploitive, ie the employee has few other options. If the market is captive that is anti competitive and is the definition of crony capitalism.
No such thing as exploitive. Those with few options failed to develop enough marketable skills..their choice, their problem to deal with.
Depends on how niche the training is and how valuable it makes you in the over all market. Most of that stuff is really specialized to that specific employer so unless they are paying for the time and the training it is not always particularly valuable to the employees resume outside of that company so why would the employee invest their own time into it ... for fear of being fired, that's about it.
WHat do you mean "most of that stuff is specialized to a specific employer" can you quantify that? Like what percentage of skills that people learn for a job is only applicable at their employer?
The usual scenario is to drop off a new piece of equipment and then tell the operator they are on their own.
Prove it. We're going to need a little more than jimhcom chasing his conclusion by claiming to know the training methods of thousands of companies.
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