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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 29 September 2015 12:21:15AM 1 point [-]

Yes, and in this context better means "willing to put up with abuse by bosses".

Comment author: gjm 29 September 2015 01:58:03AM 0 points [-]

It presumably means some combination of that, speed, diligence, etc. I wouldn't expect abuse-tolerance to be a large fraction of what most bosses want, though no doubt some bosses are awful enough to prefer less profitable but more abusable employees.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 29 September 2015 03:05:48AM 1 point [-]

Depends on the "abuse". Here it means practices that increase productivity at the expense of employee quality of life. For example, insisting that employees be willing to work odd hours on short notice.