Te-Ping Chen
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373 appearances
7 recordings
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Oct 2024
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That said, of course, as he also put it to me, I can get a job, I just can't get the hours.
So he just kept cycling through and through and eventually decided to quit.
He was bouncing between sort of retail and restaurants and he ended up deciding he wanted to be an EMT and that's what he's training to do now.
In another case of a worker, it was a situation where he was working at a Dollar General and just not getting the hours.
He had to get a second job working at a Subway sandwich shop and even a third job doing DoorDash.
And that's another really common way that a lot of workers compensate, picking up extra shifts at second jobs, third jobs in the case of, say, doing a lot of DoorDash, that kind of thing.
a lot of different things.
Some companies are trying to give workers more control over their schedules.
Historically, hourly workers who are really the ones faced with these kinds of issues, they get hit with a lot of things, whether it's lack of notice for their schedules or not being given any choice in the matter of what sort of hours they work.
And so a lot of companies are trying to address those issues.
as well as committing to giving their existing employees more hours before hiring on new ones.
So that's something that we've heard companies talk about doing.
Target is one example.
Walmart is an example of a company that's committed to making more part-time employees full-time.
So it's absolutely something that companies are thinking about.
And then, of course, there's the spectrum of other things that we've seen being used as inducements during this time, whether it's raised wages or...
Better benefits, more flexibility, that kind of thing.
But definitely on the hours front, it comes down to more flexibility and often as well giving workers a chance to work more.
Yeah, you know, that's a great question and a good observation.
It's not every hourly worker or part-time worker who wants to work full-time, right?
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