Timesizing
®
not downsizing|
TIMESIZING
is reducing hours
to avoid layoffs.
It's cutting the
workweek, to
spread employment
& maintain markets,
instead of cutting
the workforce
& markets.
The workweek is totally arbitrary anyway, an historical accident.
Timesizing
means
more jobs,
shorter hours, same pay,
cuz you've cut the labor surplus.
Check out our timesizing blog
and
time trilogy. |
To "save the world," we need to start at the right place. We can't start with hunger, because no one with money is hungry. And we can't start with lack of money (poverty), because no one with a good job is poor. It all comes down to – jobs. And jobs come down to on-the-job hours. Mess up your time arrangements and you mess up your whole society, because time counts it all. Keep injecting worksaving technology into a frozen 1940 workweek and you create so much job insecurity you get people working 90-hour weeks nextdoor to people caught in the latest round of downsizing and about to lose the house. The question of the century is - how far into the age of robotics can we maintain a pre-computer workweek before employment collapses and with it, our markets? This website straightens out the time mess and creates jobs by economic design, defined as the answer to the question, "What's the smallest change that would yield the greatest good for the greatest number?" The new design should be simpler than the tangled web we've woven and should actually be a series of designs to satisfy ever-rising expectations. It should answer the obvious question: How do we solve our economic downturn? and the unasked question: As we concentrate our national income and wealth in the top brackets, is there a point where the process starts to undermine itself? The problem here is that, as the money supply is redestributed up the income brackets, its circulation gets slower and slower because fewer and fewer wealthier and wealthier people spend smaller and smaller percentages of their total money... It also answers: How do we get wartime prosperity without war? That prosperity depended on a labor shortage that harnessed market forces to raise wages, spread the national income to the 'bottom' 90% who wanted & needed to spend it, and boosted spending, & marketable productivity, & sustainable investments. But can we get a labor shortage without killing people? We had actually found a way before the war interrupted and upstaged it = workweek reduction (1938,39,40: hrs/wk 44,42,40; unemployment 19,17.2,14.6%) – Walter Reuther called it "fluctuating workweek adjustment vs. unemployment." Wage workers & consultants already track their billable time via systems like *mytimeforce time & attendance. Salaried & piece workers will need "shadow timing." Pay & markets will rise as labor gets scarcer = wartime prosperity without war. Use this website for worst-case planning, economic design, and news on the economy's doom du jour, spun anxiously as a "recovery" by both right and left, and critiqued from the 3rd way viewpoint of a student of ecology, linguistics and history. |
hope du jourtm –
7/25-26-27/2010 sun-mon-tue - triweekly updates (archives) -
TIMESIZING instead of downsizing in the news (archives)
- Google Search newsclips of what the world's doing that's on the right track
- the core solution is so obvious, nobody's noticing it - usually it's just one item on a list - few yet realize it's the ink & paper of the list itself - it's our closest candidate to a single all-sufficient control and despite *dismissal by the 'experts,' it's reinvented thousands of times a day in every downturn by businesses & governments, for ex.,*Washington State's video on replacing downsizing with timesizing alias 'shared work' -
[editor's comments in square brackets] (editor= Phil Hyde, timesizing@aol.com) -
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How? By adjusting the workweek down & up - instead of firing & hiring - based on a comprehensive blueprint for a green economy
& a new worktime economics where, 100 years from now, people will be...
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For details, see our social-software manual, in simple language - 
This numbered, first edition is available from *Amazon.com.
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