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The temp phenomenon is driven in part by excess labor and insufficient demand.
To add stability to jobs, you first have to add stability to American industry. That means raising the import tariffs, so that we stop the off-shoring of American industries.
Then we need to reach full employment, and companies will start seeking to lock in talent instead of using temporary pools.
It appears that permanence has become passe in many facets of this “new economy.” So sad.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t have pushed this. But if you live in LA and can get on the good side of the people at Central Casting, you’ll get a SAG card. Turn on the charm (hopefully short of the casting couch) and you’ll be working a lot.
But you’ve got to be personable and charming without seeming a schmoozer. A neat trick if one can pull it off, with a just little of, “The stuff that dreams are made of.”
“Break a leg.”
At least all these people aren’t tied down to a permanent job.
Now they can paint, or sing, or do whatever the hell the WH considers ‘freeing’.
Can’t be, people right here say Americans are lazy, who refuse good paying full time jobs with benefits and pensions....Like those in government get.
Government is the biggest employer in the U.S. because they produce so much!
I bet those in government get all that because they’ve spent decades working hard choking the life out of country while pulling tax payers up on ropes like a pinatas, beating coins out of them. That’s honorable hard work.
‘Temp work’ is about as ‘cut-throat’ as it gets. If you ever get anything worse than a cold and unable to work for more than a day or two, you’re gone.(they would rather you show up and infect other employees) Death in the family? Too bad. If you’re hired on as a ‘temp’ or contractor at an employer with a labor union, the union thugs will HATE you, and you had better drive a car to work you don’t mind being vandalized.
Having said that, it can be better than nothing, and at many places these days, you’re hired as a ‘temp’ so they can try you out, as it’s an opportunity to get your ‘foot in the door’. If you’re skilled and fit in, much of the time, they’ll hire you on with the company.
During these crazy days of repressive laws/regulation and the constant threat of being litigated into oblivion, many employers gain a layer of protection via ‘temp’ job agencies or hiring on contractors.
Contracting has pluses as well as minuses. It can lead to the creation of small businesses.