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Not necessarily. Perhaps there actually are too many workers for the amount of work there is.
by zip1234 10y ago
Not necessarily. Perhaps there actually are too many workers for the amount of work there is.
- st3v3r 10y agoWhich is another failure of management, and still causing the workers to be punished.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoManagers are not oracles, they can't always anticipate boom and bust cycles on the market, nor - if they can - does it always make sense to scale production capacity down and back up if the cycles are short.
- zardo 10y agoIf you aren't selling enough product, you have to slow the factory down. But factories often don't slow down efficiently, it can be better to just work 4-day weeks for a while. It's not really managements fault that we have a boom-bust economy. And... I think most people prefer a little collective belt tightening and to the risk of losing their livelihood.