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by robertsjerilyn | April 1, 2009 at 06:17 pm
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2.6 million American’ jobs were lost in 2008, reaching its highest level in six decades. one in 18 or 14.4 million Americans currently suffer from anxiety disorders. The quality of life in America can be increasingly questioned. While some are feeling overwhelmed and overworked others are feeling the wrath of the economic downturn. 2009 has proven to be about change in our country thus far, and it is time to find a new and beneficial way to commence ending unemployment, while ensuring and promoting a better quality of life
In Europe job sharing has been widely used as an alternative to benefit both the employee and employer, instead of using mass lay off options. Job sharing has been used to create jobs by splitting workloads and hours between employees. This idea could have many enticements in America, including the many benefits of having more leisure time. Also, giving more options to those who cannot work full time due to other priorities such as childcare, school, and other necessary acts of precedence.
In this materialistic country many people oppose the idea of job sharing mainly due to the importance of costly and unnecessary objects in their lives. Unfortunately a downturn facing job sharing is less cash flow, clearly because there are less hours available for single persons. Job sharing, on the contrary, could be viewed as a countless opportunity to lessen the extreme unemployment and promote less costly ways of pleasure such as spending more time concentrating on our dreams and aspirations, which are much too often put on the backburner.
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at 23:29 on April 1st, 2009
I think either parent of a family should be made to stay at home to look after little Johnny until the child is aged about 7 or 8 and starts full time education.
How many peoples jobs would then be vacated?
How much anxiety disorders would that cure?
How much youth crime would that reduce?
How many families would feel happier?
at 09:53 on April 2nd, 2009
Itslefty,
In some companies, job sharing would not be a favorable option . For the nurses who already work a 12 hour shift and for all other workers who believe that if they were to become ill they would lose their job, job sharing could prove to be a beneficial alternative. Many families would be thankful at the effort put forth, from their employer, at ensuring their employees with a job, even if it means fewer hours. Less money is better than absence of money altogether. fewer hours at work would leave additional hours open to locate another source of income, while still earning an income. Mass layoffs nationwide are not exactly a positive sign of handily available jobs.
Youth crime could be approached easier if parents had more free time to spend with their children. Parents could even be less distracted with tasks at work if they were dividing the tasks with a coworker. Job sharing could promote a more family and personal expectation oriented lifestyle creating happier families.
The first step would be to inform the public of how they could use job sharing as a profitable opportunity rather than allotting the impression of job sharing as solely less work and money.
Jerilyn
at 05:07 on April 4th, 2009
Job sharing do have two meanings, the one in this article at issue and another one recently applied in he harbour of Rotterdam, where laid-off employees are sharing the same job on two weeks' intervals.
In a recession people will be laid-off, loosing their experience is destructive, so the Management should make an agreement with the authorities to pay the working part by themselves and get compensated the other on alternating turns.
I think this is the best option to be applied in a down-turn situation we are in today. The car industry has to shed at least 30% - 50% of their workforce, alternating job sharing is the solution.
It wonders me, why not others have looked into this valuable alternative. Once people are laid-off it is very hard to get those re-integrated in the workforce once situations do improve.