“Businesses have caught on and are using part time work so they aren’t out any benefits.”
They’re using temps, too; it might be a ten-year assignment, but it is staffed by temps. Not likely Obama voters in November...
At the college -level, the number of post-doc is at an all-time high. The professors are working less, the none-tenbured, and post-docs and the Teachings assistants are doing more—and all for less. An increasing portion of the university’s income to going into administration. They are following the business model, where the upper levels get a greater and greater share for doing less.