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All this hiring and firing makes me think that the economy should err towards gigs rather than FT employment. i.e. Full-time work is only full-time until it en
by danm07 10y ago
All this hiring and firing makes me think that the economy should err towards gigs rather than FT employment.
i.e. Full-time work is only full-time until it ends, but the ending is inadequately spelled out on the side of management, so it becomes an ongoing expense drag, leading to diminishing returns.
Multiply this by the number of employees, layoffs seem inevitable.
- DrScump 10y ago"All this hiring and firing makes me think that the economy should err towards gigs rather than FT employment." The danger of this (to the employees) is a recession creating another 2009-like economy, where the best one could hope for is a contract gig of more than a couple of months. People tend to forget how disposably they can be treated during hard times.
- danm07 10y agoGood point. Although, I tend to think the timespan of contracts, whether employment or temporary, are of little moment if the employer were to fall on hard times. If they don't have the cash, termination is going to happen either way. What might work is automated Just-in-Time contracting, with minimal agency cost and lead-times, and with automation providing the stability of full-time employment. LinkedIn 2.0 essentially (fyi: this doesn't exist, I just made it up)
- softawre 10y agoGigster?
- flukus 10y agoHave you ever worked on a codebase built by people who had no idea if they would have the same job in 3 months?