Vastly misunderstood this from the title and I suspect a few others have as well.
This seems to be more about internships than interviews for a qualified professional (or whatever you want to call those candidates).
Just make unpaid internships illegal. If you do work for a company that a paid employee would normally do, then you should be compensated.
But not paying someone to run around and get you coffee is just completely nonsensical these days.
I'd laugh all the way out of the door, and my country has a 40% unemployment rate. I'm just not going to do work I don't get paid for, because it turns out living is expensive.
This seems to be more about internships than interviews for a qualified professional (or whatever you want to call those candidates).
Just make unpaid internships illegal. If you do work for a company that a paid employee would normally do, then you should be compensated.
But not paying someone to run around and get you coffee is just completely nonsensical these days.
I'd laugh all the way out of the door, and my country has a 40% unemployment rate. I'm just not going to do work I don't get paid for, because it turns out living is expensive.