How to create nearly full employment !

Posted 10 January 2009 - 11:54 AM

Bureau of Labor Statistic's Facts:

In 1965 the average hours worked per week by all workers was nearly 40.

In 2008 the average hours worked per week by all workers was 33.2.

This suggests to me one thing.

Cut the work week to 4 days. And hire more people ! (anyone here not for working only 4 days ? ) Personally I would love 3 day weekends every week. I work to live, not live to work. There are so many more enjoyable and rewarding things in life.

P.S. There will NEVER be full employment as approximately 7 to 10% of the potential work force is structurally unemployable. These are people who simply cannot hold down a full time job. For whatever the reason. They can be trained, coerced, what have you, but it won't make a difference.

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 12:43 PM

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 01:15 PM

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 01:19 PM

Personally, I can't deal with babysitting adults.

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 02:55 PM

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 03:02 PM

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 03:48 PM

Actually, they're quite employable, for short durations. There are just many, many regulatory barriers to utilizing these folks on terms that make managers/entrepreneurs money, and that are palatable to the less employable labor.

At least, that's my read and experience.

And, yes, I've come to believe that the structural poor are that way because of their own failings, by and large. Addiction primarily.

M

I don't know about that----"structural poor" is a wide category. Being laid off from a good paying job
could cause you to become poor if you cannot find a job. Doesn't mean you are a failure.
It's really sad because the internet job boards are posting jobs---not really there. Seems to me employers
use the job boards to just advertise their company. check it out----Career builders, Hot Jobs--.
Also check out all the links attached for educational training----only want you to apply for school loans
college tuition, insurance, health care---change your career---go to school. Send us money---We care about your future---

What a Joke!!!

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 03:55 PM

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 08:29 PM

"Cut the work week to 4 days. And hire more people ! "

Not so funny really. This could be indirectly mandated by requiring employers to pay double or more for overtime, or worse, some kind of additional "health care" tax on fulltime and/or overtime to cover those not working full time. The imagination runs wild here.

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 12:49 AM

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