As
there is increasing unemployment in the world, while at the same time those who
have jobs are working harder and harder, it would be better to have a four-day
working week for everyone, and so to create more jobs. In what extent do you
agree or disagree?
In
the wake of rising joblessness, many are trying to find appropriate remedies to
this, one of suggestions includes shrinking the working week to four days. The
supporters of this thought feel this may help create more jobs though there are
voices of dissent on this proposal.
This
proposal of incorporating a shorter working week, that is of four days, finds
its support in the assumption that under such settings the businesses will be
forced to hire additional personnel to compensate for day offs of current work
force, and complete the work, in order
to sustain operations and meet deadlines. Such a move would render
opportunities to others in need of work to get jobs, thus bringing down the number of jobless
individuals.
However,
a great skepticism is being expressed about this scheme: many feel such an arrangement
will prove to be counterproductive since the dearth of employment is not a deliberate creation but an aftermath
of economic down turn, and enforcing such an ambitious plan, will instead
exacerbate the situation of unemployment by making organizations vulnerable to losses,
by virtue of paying more money for the same amount of work.
Moreover, many feel
that the desired outcome, creation of more jobs, may not be achieved, the
employers may instead resort to increasing the number working hours on other
days to offsetting the impact of a shorter
working week schedule. It seems quite viable that managements of organizations will
hardly plan more appointments when they are deriving adequate outputs from the
existing work strength.
In conclusion, I
feel this idea lacks substance and is a
recipe for disaster. Many organizations are already finding it hard to optimize
their cost of operations due to dwindling
revenues, and such a move may do more harm than good.
