The problem at hand is the creation of jobs. How it happened and why is not important right now because that does not create jobs. Trying to bring jobs back from where they were lost will take too much time. Stop warring on other countries and using that money to create more jobs will also take too much time. People need help now the solution is creating more jobs as fast as possible with what we have at hand. What we have at hand are the jobs that are still here. This turns the problem into a scheduling problem. The object is to work more people into the jobs that are still here. There can be many approaches and variations on scheduling more people into the same position. This will not work at every jobsite but I feel it can be implemented in enough jobsites across America
The new working schedule would be 4 ten hour days of work and 4 days off. Let’s say a company has 50 employees they start working 4 ten hour days and take 4 days off. The company hires 50 more people to work during the other 50 employee’s days off working 4 ten hour days also. It is simple you create twice as many jobs in the same position.
Crew “A” work days are shown in red, crew “B” is shown in green.
When one crew is working the other is off.
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The problem with this system is it's a scheduling nightmare and a person working this schedule will lose 280 hours a year. This is because 52 weeks of work becomes 45 weeks of work. Some year’s one crew will have a couple of extra days than the other crew. I believe people unemployed will be willing to work this shift because work is work. The problem in changing to this system will be with the employed and the unions.
This system will not work in every work place. Places working 24 hours a day would have a problem because they usually have 3 shifts of 8 hours a day. Working 10 hours a day would do more damage than good.
I believe working 10 hours on and taking 4 days off is best because a person already loses too many hours a year working this schedule, working 8 hours a day would make this loss too great. Working 12 hours a day would be optional but I feel working 10 hours a day without overtime is justifiable when taking the four days off but do not believe this is so when working 12 hours a day. Working 12 hours a day in my experience is not productive people are more at risk for injuries due to fatigue .
I believe a 10 hour day is more productive because lag time is made up after lunch in the extra 2 hours. 10 hours a day does not have a compiling effect on a person’s stamina as 12 hours a day does.
4 days on 4 days off in some work places will take away the cutting edge a person acquires from working 8 hours a day five days a week and may cause more accidents.
The benefits from working this schedule is it puts enough people back to work now to create a trickle up effect. It is a fair work week working as many days as taking off. Parents being off at different times would not need daycare and could raise their own children. It lessens the bite of working your whole life and only retiring after your physical abilities have diminished because your government is hoping you die before it has to pay too much out. It takes this bite out because you can now enjoy your life away from work throughout your life. I believe people working this shift for a small length of time will never want to go back to a 5 day work week.
The more people working the better the economy will get. It will also fix healthcare as more people will be paying into it. It will also fix social security and eventually the retirement age can be lowered.
This system can be achieved by giving employers tax incentives for working this schedule. An employer could pay half as much vacation and sick pay because so much more time is taken off from work, working twice as many people an employer will only break even. I believe to sweeten the deal holiday pay should be given up for the same reason of having already so much time away from work.
Although capitalism is encouraged I believe a new ideology needs to be encouraged as well with this new working schedule. This would be the more hours a person works over 4 10hr days the more work they take from some one else.
For every job created two people are needed which should keep up with population growth, and the time to do this is now. This country does not have the time or funds to do anything else
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