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Recession Tales - The Workplace Is Changing Forever

5 points by jamesbressi 17y ago

jamesbressi 17y ago
Interesting article, but "forever" is silly as we all know that the economy and issues related are cyclical and never go in one direction forever. Look at this piece: "When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession." Does the author really think so? When the economy rebounds and is bustling again and employers are back to competing to hire talent, is this really going to be a problem? Nope. In fact, in our current "crappy" economy, that is still happening. Microsoft is trying to recruit people from Apple Stores, for their own stores, and luring them with higher wages. Just a thought. I will admit though that through these cycles, some things do change in a direction that seems to go on much longer than cycle itself.
Ixiaus 17y ago
Gloom and doomers keep glooming and dooming because they can't see outside of their valuing system. Change is the only constant in the Universe. Anytime something no longer changes into the same thing, people freak out because the majority of human understanding has been erected around the idea that the Universe is a static container in which material agents interact (which is false). Therefore, people are afraid of change, otherwise known as: the un-known. "When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession." This statement is silly and comes from a person that stands in a static place, not a dynamic place; a place of lack rather than abundance. They haven't allowed themselves to grow outside of their own valuing system and are therefore stuck inside the old one continuing to observe and judge events from within that system. The alternate point of view, could be, that the workplace has changed for the better and more Americans now value their personal time more than they had before. As more jobs are created in the coming years, the employed will have a greater sense of self-respect (something the author was not giving the American workforce) that companies will be obliged to heed. Or, more Americans now see the glass ceiling of working for someone other than themselves and realize they could very well start their own business, or provide their services as a contractor/consultant... Static thought is perishable because the system it is apart of evolves too quickly for any-thing to not keep up. Dynamic thought allows growth and evolution on the micro-personal level and the macro-social level; this evolution is what creates recessions and booms. The expansion of something is often seen as contraction because as "things" fill up the bubble it appears to be a "boom", and once the bubble is popped because it has reached capacity, it expands and all the contents of that bubble spill into the next larger bubble with more dispersion appearing to be a "recession".
marknutter 17y ago
I have a better title for this; one that doesn't require you read the article at all: "The Workplace is Always Changing Forever"

5 points by jamesbressi 17y ago

Interesting article, but "forever" is silly as we all know that the economy and issues related are cyclical and never go in one direction forever. Look at this piece: "When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession." Does the author really think so? When the economy rebounds and is bustling again and employers are back to competing to hire talent, is this really going to be a problem? Nope. In fact, in our current "crappy" economy, that is still happening. Microsoft is trying to recruit people from Apple Stores, for their own stores, and luring them with higher wages. Just a thought. I will admit though that through these cycles, some things do change in a direction that seems to go on much longer than cycle itself.

Ixiaus 17y ago

Gloom and doomers keep glooming and dooming because they can't see outside of their valuing system. Change is the only constant in the Universe. Anytime something no longer changes into the same thing, people freak out because the majority of human understanding has been erected around the idea that the Universe is a static container in which material agents interact (which is false). Therefore, people are afraid of change, otherwise known as: the un-known. "When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession." This statement is silly and comes from a person that stands in a static place, not a dynamic place; a place of lack rather than abundance. They haven't allowed themselves to grow outside of their own valuing system and are therefore stuck inside the old one continuing to observe and judge events from within that system. The alternate point of view, could be, that the workplace has changed for the better and more Americans now value their personal time more than they had before. As more jobs are created in the coming years, the employed will have a greater sense of self-respect (something the author was not giving the American workforce) that companies will be obliged to heed. Or, more Americans now see the glass ceiling of working for someone other than themselves and realize they could very well start their own business, or provide their services as a contractor/consultant... Static thought is perishable because the system it is apart of evolves too quickly for any-thing to not keep up. Dynamic thought allows growth and evolution on the micro-personal level and the macro-social level; this evolution is what creates recessions and booms. The expansion of something is often seen as contraction because as "things" fill up the bubble it appears to be a "boom", and once the bubble is popped because it has reached capacity, it expands and all the contents of that bubble spill into the next larger bubble with more dispersion appearing to be a "recession".

marknutter 17y ago

I have a better title for this; one that doesn't require you read the article at all: "The Workplace is Always Changing Forever"