America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency 541
cold fjord writes "From the Examiner: '...the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. ... part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. ... There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs. Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. ... Temp jobs made up about 10 percent of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, but now make up a tenth of the jobs in the United States. In fact, nearly one-fifth of all jobs gained since the recession ended have been temporary.' The NYT has a chart detailing the problem."
Re:lack of unions and workers rights (Score:5, Funny)
No doubt. Legitimate users of 1099s are competent, top of their field people. Obviously _you've_ never seen one.
I did temp work once (Score:2, Funny)
Got a temp job at Deep 13. Never again!
This is why population control matters (Score:4, Funny)
In most countries the number of birth/1000 is decreasing and it appears to be tightly coupled with the economic state of each country. In addition, there is nothing new about humans being replaced by machines (Farmers, phone operations, lumber cutting...). It has been happening since before the 1800 yet we live hundreds of times better than they did in the 1800. Human kind has a way of making it work out. As long as we keep working on world issues we will make it.
Re:Corporate executives are smart. (Score:5, Funny)
Careful, the cognitive dissonance cause by the sudden introduction of "facts and figures" can be injurious to an ideologue's brain.
Re:Stop using the term "Great Recession" (Score:4, Funny)
The National Bureau of Economic Research [nber.org] defines a recession as:
And according to the NBER, the last recession in the US lasted from 4Q2007 to 2Q2009. We are not currently in a recession.