Surviving the Economic Crisis - Is Job Sharing an Answer to Rising Unemployment?

Job-sharing or division of labor is a simple idea, but it can cause a major re-thinking of the work rolls. With job sharing, two or more persons share a job. For example, Anita in a job in the morning to work, and Carlos can take place on the same work in the afternoon. Job-sharing is popular with couples, so that husband and wife each work half a day, while in turn transferred to the household and raising children at home.

Job-sharing may provide considerable flexibility forWorkers and organizations. In the last recession, Motorola wanted to cut production at its 9,000-employee Phoenix plant without layoffs. Dismissal would have created hardship for many employees. In addition, high costs would have meant for the training and remember when it was time to resumption of full production. Motorola chose job-sharing as an approach to reduce production costs. It cut the cost of 1.5 million U.S. dollars, and saved more than a thousand jobs.

This may become the latestTrend in the current economic downturn, if we consider it economically makes sense that its better someone is working, rather than a burden on states who are sick, this person can assist with emergency relief. One question that may seem irrelevant today, but faced a challenge in the coming years, even liberal thinkers, the socio-economic problems associated with high unemployment and falling tax revenues.

If we really look at thisConcept that someone his better work and not dependent on the state, even if they are not much in tax, at least they do not have to take out of the mountain of depleted government. A country that would be working in Germany, were actually hidden unemployment reached an unacceptable level and exhausted the governments funding so much that free enterprise with taxes reduced. A recipe that created a nation that punishes companies, encouraged dependencythe state, and made key industries to outsource rather than invest in their own country.

The German example of poor economic management, should be a warning to the States, because of high unemployment, but are unwilling or reluctant to create new ideas to implement a permanent problem that will not go away.

Job sharing employees may not like, but if accepted the possibility of unemployment is then the majority of people, especially the idea of sharing their job, instead, it isPart of a growing underclass of unemployed.

(See Surviving the Economic Crisis, a series of articles) with the new economic changes that we face after the October 2008 crash, and deals with ways in which we were able to adapt and survive these changes