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> and what happens when you can't find one? sounds like what you're saying is that without this employer, this employee would have a worse or no job; if you st
by surement 4y ago
> and what happens when you can't find one?
sounds like what you're saying is that without this employer, this employee would have a worse or no job; if you start from that and then give them this job then it sounds pretty positive
> they won't even let someone survive anymore.
who's they?
- DoctorOW 4y agoYou're circling the answer. Every industry is experiencing a massive amount of consolidation. While people have discussed the lack of competition's impacts on consumers, this is getting close to mentioning that even though there are technically more jobs there's fewer actual employers.
- surement 4y agodo you have data to back that up?
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- DoctorOW 4y agoI can't find a good actual link to the entire data set with but looking at the data in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' website you can see both the average number of hours worked are trending downwards, having not been above the 35 hour threshold for a full time job since the 1980's. I have not found reputable data that differentiates full time employed into "One full-time job" vs. "Multiple part time jobs". Chart: https://i.imgur.com/Ah5YKd0.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Ah5YKd0.jpg