Companies don't do this because they can get away with it. Unions are usually the most effective countermeasure to these kind of things. Here in Finland the t

Companies don't do this because they can get away with it. Unions are usually the most effective countermeasure to these kind of things. Here in Finland the tech-sector union just agreed to a 2% salary increase (inflation is at 2.5% this year [1]) after having threatened strikes if the conditions of the agreement were not good enough [2] [1]: https://yle.fi/news/3-12143521 https://yle.fi/news/3-12143521 [2]: https://yle.fi/news/3-12262577 https://yle.fi/news/3-12262577