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Indeed it's still a big difference, but it's not "off the charts!" as the graph would have you believe. Plus, it's fairly reasonable that there would be such a
by furyg3 16y ago
Indeed it's still a big difference, but it's not "off the charts!" as the graph would have you believe.
Plus, it's fairly reasonable that there would be such a difference between private / public job loss rates.
Employment rates in the operations department of most companies I've worked for are relatively flat during both boom and bust times, when the rates of the rest of the organisation fluctuate wildly. In boom times you need IT/HR/Facilities/Finance... and in bust times you do, too. Sales? R&D? Maybe not so much.
I can imagine that most public services are more on the Ops side and less on the Sales side.
- nkassis 16y agoI worked for a University in florida and the largest department was by far the Facilities one. Maintaining buildings, keeping them clean etc.. is very expensive. You can't cut those jobs and for each new building, you to add more of these people. The University tried to freeze hiring but a few new buildings were entering operation, they had to keep getting more janitors/grounds keepers etc.