Corporate America: Just Not Into You Anymore [View All]

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from Working Life:



Corporate America: Just Not Into You Anymore

by Jonathan Tasini
Monday 20 of December, 2010


Let's face it. Companies don't care about you anymore:

Despite a surge this year in short-term hiring, many American businesses are still skittish about making those jobs permanent, raising concerns among workers and some labor experts that temporary employees will become a larger, more entrenched part of the work force.

This is bad news for the nation’s workers, who are already facing one of the bleakest labor markets in recent history. Temporary employees generally receive fewer benefits or none at all, and have virtually no job security. It is harder for them to save. And it is much more difficult for them to develop a career arc while hopping from boss to boss.

Corporations pile up cash--and spend it only on executive bonuses. They slash workers--and don't expect to hire people back. And, apparently, they are just happy as heck to keep workers as temporary--the better to dispose of you.


http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15057