Nearly 29% of Employees Considered Unproductive, Survey Found
National News • July 19, 2006
Nearly 29 percent percent of company time in America is unproductive, according to the results of a new study by management consulting firm, Proudfoot Consulting. The estimated cost of poor ...
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Subject: Lack Of Job Security
Posted On: July 26, 2006, 6:05 pm CDT
Posted By: Jacqueline
Comment:
First, I have noticed that office politics and corporate "culture" - which tends to be very ageist, classist and other "ists" not mentioned. So when someone who is a good worker wants to help the company they usually find that:
1) They end up working so efficiently that they work themselves out of a job.
2) The hiring/firing decisions are based more on non-related stuff like "personality" and "image"(read as: upper-middle class, under age 30 and not overweight, and willing to sacrifice family needs and any type of home life all for the greater good of the corporation - which usually does not reciprocate loyalty to the worker or job applicant)
3)Productivity has been rewarded with millions upon millions of pink slips and empty pension promises - Enron ring a bell anyone? Just ask all the IT and finance professionals who were told to train their foreign H-1B and L-1 "guest" replacement workers in preparation for offshoring massive jobs, and if they refused to help dig their own graves what the companies would do to them: Deny unemployment benefits, renig on severance pays, black-ball you from future potential job prospects for "insubordination" - you name it.
For the past 25 years, starting with the manufacturing sector, we the people have been told by the corporate elite that we needed to make sacrifices in wages and health benefits, that we needed to choose between a sick child/elderly parent/sick spouse or our jobs, and that we had to work harder and smarter if we wanted ANY semblence of economic security in the form of longevity in the jobs we had. And look how we were collectively repaid for doing all those things. We have found 13 million of us downsized, right-sized, smart-sized out of jobs and because of ageism - not getting chances for other good jobs while the jobs went to inexperienced 23 yr old Barbie Dolls and spoiled frat boys, foreign guest workers, immigrants, and off-shore to Bangalore.
We have found an eviscerated middle class and a diminished standard of living with less and less hope for being able to be rewarded with some basic material comfort and security in our old age for our conforming to the corporatists' agenda and expectations of us. There's no incentive left for anyone to want to be productive because the reward for past loyalty and productivity has been to get told to assume the position - with no company-issued jar of K.Y. Just look at the number of people working at their laptops, i-pods and cell phones while stuck in traffic on any given day on any given highway. People are tethered to their employer by cell phones and laptops - even on weekends and on so-called vacation time! If anything, those Americans fortunate enough to still be employed in good jobs are working harder and longer than in any previous generation and getting nothing for it but the shaft! If we are all going to just end up impoverished struggling to survive in a banana republic, what's the point in working at all - never mind more productively - if all we're going to get is to be poor anyway?
Subject: Lack Of Job Security
1) They end up working so efficiently that they work themselves out of a job.
2) The hiring/firing decisions are based more on non-related stuff like "personality" and "image"(read as: upper-middle class, under age 30 and not overweight, and willing to sacrifice family needs and any type of home life all for the greater good of the corporation - which usually does not reciprocate loyalty to the worker or job applicant)
3)Productivity has been rewarded with millions upon millions of pink slips and empty pension promises - Enron ring a bell anyone? Just ask all the IT and finance professionals who were told to train their foreign H-1B and L-1 "guest" replacement workers in preparation for offshoring massive jobs, and if they refused to help dig their own graves what the companies would do to them: Deny unemployment benefits, renig on severance pays, black-ball you from future potential job prospects for "insubordination" - you name it.
For the past 25 years, starting with the manufacturing sector, we the people have been told by the corporate elite that we needed to make sacrifices in wages and health benefits, that we needed to choose between a sick child/elderly parent/sick spouse or our jobs, and that we had to work harder and smarter if we wanted ANY semblence of economic security in the form of longevity in the jobs we had. And look how we were collectively repaid for doing all those things. We have found 13 million of us downsized, right-sized, smart-sized out of jobs and because of ageism - not getting chances for other good jobs while the jobs went to inexperienced 23 yr old Barbie Dolls and spoiled frat boys, foreign guest workers, immigrants, and off-shore to Bangalore.
We have found an eviscerated middle class and a diminished standard of living with less and less hope for being able to be rewarded with some basic material comfort and security in our old age for our conforming to the corporatists' agenda and expectations of us. There's no incentive left for anyone to want to be productive because the reward for past loyalty and productivity has been to get told to assume the position - with no company-issued jar of K.Y. Just look at the number of people working at their laptops, i-pods and cell phones while stuck in traffic on any given day on any given highway. People are tethered to their employer by cell phones and laptops - even on weekends and on so-called vacation time! If anything, those Americans fortunate enough to still be employed in good jobs are working harder and longer than in any previous generation and getting nothing for it but the shaft! If we are all going to just end up impoverished struggling to survive in a banana republic, what's the point in working at all - never mind more productively - if all we're going to get is to be poor anyway?