Do those numbers include the permanently unemployed that never want to work even when businesses were hiring any warm body that would show up?Folks are estimating an unemployment rate around 13% right now. That means 87% of us are still working.
Do those numbers include the permanently unemployed that never want to work even when businesses were hiring any warm body that would show up?
Many still are, especially grocery stores, warehouses and other essential businesses, but with the unemployment "bonus", many won't bother.
Why should they? $400-500 a week to work full time vs. $800+ a week to hang out at home for a few weeks?
I never was very good at math, but I can solve that story problem.
^^^This.^^^ We were in the process of moving into our newly remodeled area when all this happened. Smaller cubes, closer together, with almost non-existant walls. Oh, and desk sharing. I'm going to try and keep working from home as long as they'll let me.I'm very blessed to have been working from home the entire time, and plan to keep doing so as long as I'm still employed and able to get away with it.
Both my wife and I are considered "high risk"; since they pack us in like sardines at the office I'm in no rush to head back in.
My daughter and a niece of mine are both layed off in this lock-down. They work in two totally different businesses, restaurant and dental.
Both were asked to go through a new hiring process and or hiring agency to resubmit a new application for reemployment.
Anyone know the particulars of this new procedure and the reasoning behind it?
I have speculations, but would like to get some input. Better yet, the legal or liability reason why this is being done.
My daughter and a niece of mine are both layed off in this lock-down. They work in two totally different businesses, restaurant and dental.
Both were asked to go through a new hiring process and or hiring agency to resubmit a new application for reemployment.
Anyone know the particulars of this new procedure and the reasoning behind it?
I have speculations, but would like to get some input. Better yet, the legal or liability reason why this is being done.
New Procedure? Sounds like their employment was terminated. They would have to be rehired. Sounds rather normal. We hire quite a few seasonal staff. The process is pretty similar. We hire, term, and rehire all the time.
My daughter was notified that she was fired, along with the rest of her coworkers. She was quite put off by this after working for the company for 12 years, essentially all of her working career.
If and when they take interviews the entire pay/benefits structure will not be anything like it was. I would move on.
If it turns out to be 15% unemployment, to what?
Good point.
I have skills. Skills kept me working at any number of things. So in that I have been somewhat jaded.