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A government office is not a supermarket. The clerks at the front might be interchangeable to some extent, but most of the people in the back office aren't. In
by kijin 8y ago
A government office is not a supermarket. The clerks at the front might be interchangeable to some extent, but most of the people in the back office aren't.
In order to utilize shifting in a typical government office, you will need to train a lot of people to perform many different tasks involving many different laws, and come up with new procedures to assign clear chains of responsibility. Especially if the shifts are as complex as you describe. Utah might have decided that it's not worth the hassle.
Besides, if you could simplify and streamline a task so much that any on-duty employee can handle it, you might as well automate it all the way. In other words, tasks that are well suited for shifting also tend to be well suited for automation. The only exceptions are 24/7 jobs such as the police and emergency services.
- manmal 8y agoYour argument is reasonable and well thought out, but I don’t think this could not be overcome. Eg people get sick every once in a while, and go on holidays, and seminars etc., and offices have to deal with this one way or another. Look at it this way - office workers are now available max 40h per week, out of 168 available hours per week, so how big a difference can 8 hours less make? Dependents would eventually get used to this, just like they have to work around the fact that offices are mostly closed on weekends. I agree that shifts are often not possible.