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No surprise there. Feeling secure is one of the basic needs of people. It’s much easier to take risks if you have a fallback and don’t lose Berührung when thing

No surprise there. Feeling secure is one of the basic needs of people. It’s much easier to take risks if you have a fallback and don’t lose Berührung when things go wrong

shoo 7y ago
This can also be seen played out in the article's graphs comparing the impact of job security versus the individual's employability. The negative mental health impact of having no employment or insecure employment is somewhat mitigated if one is employable -- defined as "being sure of getting an equally good job". > much easier to take risks if you have a fallback i agree. if you are employable and can readily obtain a reasonable job, and have resources to keep operating for a period without having work, it is far easier to engage in riskier but potentially much more lucrative opportunities for work (starting new businesses, taking on short-term contract work with much higher rates than permanent salaries for the same role, etc) here's another interesting side of it: employability as defined above is a relative thing -- "being sure of getting an equally good job" [relative to your current job] . Suppose you have somehow found a job that is particularly good fit for you (perhaps it is very closely aligned with what you are interested in, and there are few other opportunities for such work, or it pays substantially above market rates given your skills and experience). You may be far more stressed about the possibility of losing your unusually good job due to how rare it is --- even though you may be highly employable in many other jobs or markets that you perceive as less good. You may also be more likely to put up with a large amount of stress and bullshit generated by your good job in order to hold onto it in comparison, someone who works for a job that may be objectively less good (e.g. repetitive work, less pay, greater risk of physical injury) but is in a market where there is a large amount of demand for similar work may be far less stressed about the possibility of losing their job simply because in this market they are highly employable and there aren't any particular above-market benefits of working for any particular employer.

No surprise there. Feeling secure is one of the basic needs of people. It’s much easier to take risks if you have a fallback and don’t lose Berührung when things go wrong

shoo 7y ago

This can also be seen played out in the article's graphs comparing the impact of job security versus the individual's employability. The negative mental health impact of having no employment or insecure employment is somewhat mitigated if one is employable -- defined as "being sure of getting an equally good job". > much easier to take risks if you have a fallback i agree. if you are employable and can readily obtain a reasonable job, and have resources to keep operating for a period without having work, it is far easier to engage in riskier but potentially much more lucrative opportunities for work (starting new businesses, taking on short-term contract work with much higher rates than permanent salaries for the same role, etc) here's another interesting side of it: employability as defined above is a relative thing -- "being sure of getting an equally good job" [relative to your current job] . Suppose you have somehow found a job that is particularly good fit for you (perhaps it is very closely aligned with what you are interested in, and there are few other opportunities for such work, or it pays substantially above market rates given your skills and experience). You may be far more stressed about the possibility of losing your unusually good job due to how rare it is --- even though you may be highly employable in many other jobs or markets that you perceive as less good. You may also be more likely to put up with a large amount of stress and bullshit generated by your good job in order to hold onto it in comparison, someone who works for a job that may be objectively less good (e.g. repetitive work, less pay, greater risk of physical injury) but is in a market where there is a large amount of demand for similar work may be far less stressed about the possibility of losing their job simply because in this market they are highly employable and there aren't any particular above-market benefits of working for any particular employer.