Employees
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With more money moving around, businesses rehire
employees
and ask existing
employees
to work more hours.
For example, The Economist’s recent portrait of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15
employees
(after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize).
Ahn, who has been in the running for only two months, has attacked Samsung, LG, and other major corporations for treating their subcontractors and
employees
“like caged animals in a zoo.”
Wall Street
employees
received more in annual bonuses ($33.2 billion) in 2007, the year before the global financial meltdown.
Think of all the corporations that have fired great numbers of people at the drop of a share price, leaving behind underpaid, overworked
employees
and burned-out managers, while the CEOs escape with their bonuses.
After all, the prosecutor, the judge, and the “panel” are all to be US government
employees.
The problem has long pervaded News Corp and 21st Century Fox, both formally spun off from the original News Corporation in 2013, after the News of the World scandal in 2011, when
employees
of the British tabloid were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence.
The have stuck by
employees
who behave in unethical ways, while punishing their victims.
Likewise, as David Autor of MIT has pointed out, the automatic teller machine (ATM) displaced human bank tellers, but so reduced the cost of branches that their number rose, fueling an increase in
employees
focused on customer relationship management (for which ATMs are less than ideal).
The State Department estimates that its
employees
are in direct communication with more than 15 million people worldwide.
This requires jobs to be rewarding in more than pecuniary ways - enlisting the minds of employees, engaging them in problem solving, leading them to discover some of their talents and expanding their abilities.
For
employees
to develop, they must be imbedded in a stimulating workplace, with new problems to solve, harder tasks to be mastered, added abilities to strive for.
One indication that something is wrong with this figure is that the government also estimates that real hourly compensation of
employees
in the non-farm business sector rose 39% from 1985 to 2015.
More ominously, the Chinese arrested four
employees
of Fujita, a Japanese construction company, on suspicion of espionage.
Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.
Some analysts have estimated that, with many fewer
employees
needed to produce the current volume of goods and services, a large share of current employment could be made redundant.
Law firms and accounting firms use computers to do what professional
employees
used to do.
The rising output per worker made possible by the increased use of robots and computers also will allow
employees
to work fewer hours and enjoy more leisure.
Employees
in the US currently work an average of 1,790 hours a year, 30% more than their German counterparts, who average just 1,371 hours per year.
The aging of the population will increase the need for service-sector
employees
in hospitals and nursing homes as well.
There are many reasons for the disparity; but a critical one is the absence in the US of labor laws and union rules that prevent
employees
and firms from adapting to the new technologies.
If the US maintains a relatively free labor market,
employees
will adjust positively to the changing technology.
In Russia,
employees
have been awarded majority stakes in newly privatized state enterprise.
And in Germany, mandatory worker representation on the board of directors, together with substantial job security, effectively gives
employees
many of the attributes of owners.
A conspicuous example is United Air Lines -- the world’s largest airline -- in which more than 50,000
employees
collectively acquired a controlling share in 1994.
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on
employees
who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
Among these costs are the difficulty of raising capital and excessive risk for
employees.
To be sure,
employees
frequently have better incentives and ability to oversee a firm's managers than do investors of capital, who are often remote from the firm.
But investors hold an important advantage that
employees
generally lack: substantial unanimity of interest.
Employees
with diverse roles within a firm are often affected differently by firm policies.
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