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Re:How Employers Track Their Workers by krapp on Thursday October 18, 2018 @09:37AM (#18248177)
>Now factory work, hourly workers, retail workers - that's a whole other thing.

These are most of the jobs, not government, energy, healthcare and whatever "core jobs at any classic company" means. Those are also overlapping sets.

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Re:How Employers Track Their Workers by sonnyblarney on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:36PM (#18250914)
No, you can see the breakdown here from the BLS [1]

Most jobs are relatively safe from calamity. Though there is ugly turnover, the same applies - in retail in particular, companies do not want to layoff - this would be very bad. They want to hire, it's just that the jobs suck. As for manufacturing - that's generally the one where 'laying off' might be good for the company as they would move the jobs overseas.

But this idea that companies are always looking to layoff and drop people is not right, it happens in specific places.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...

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