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Having underemployed workers can lead to two outcomes that benefit an organization—creativity and commitment to the organization—according to a new study by management experts at Rice University, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen and Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Statistics have shown that a significant proportion of workers worldwide are underemployed or working at jobs that are below their capacity. Researchers have estimated that underemployment ranges from 17 percent to two-thirds of the workforce in Asia, Europe and North America, according to the study.
"Our results have important implications for managers," said study co-author Jing Zhou, the Houston Endowment Professor of Management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business. "Managers should not assume that employees will always respond negatively to their perception of being underemployed. Our results suggest that managers need to be vigilant in detecting perceptions of underemployment among employees.
"When managers notice that their employees feel underemployed, they should support employees' efforts to proactively change the boundaries or formal descriptions of their work tasks, such as changing the sequencing of the tasks, increasing the number of tasks that they do or enlarging the scope of the tasks," she said. "Because the perception of underemployment may be experienced by many employees, managers should provide support to sustain positive outcomes in these situations."
Not getting enough hours to qualify for benefits is a good thing?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:37AM
Sounds like you're burned out
Absolutely I am burned out. Thing is nothing really interests me. I took 5 months off between jobs. As in I did not even LOOK for another job. Started looking again a couple of weeks ago. Getting told 'no' is pretty depressing too. All that interests me is sitting on ass and playing solitaire. Cant even motivate myself to play a real game. Even basic things like getting up in the morning are tough. Its probably full on depression.
Had a blast the past few days learning a new computer language. But I know the high will not last unless I have a job to use it on.
you might have to move somewhere so your income can accommodate your new lifestyle
I already live in a economically depressed area. A nice 2500sq ft house is 180k. In most large urban areas something like that starts around 400k. The downside is there are no real jobs around here other than slinging burgers. The factory jobs all moved to china and mexico years ago.
A job that pays 6+ figures USD comes with drawbacks. That's one reason why you don't see more women in IT and engineering jobs
You dont see them as they never get in the first place. They are encouraged to do other things by their families. My MIL told my wife 'find a good man and you dont need a job'. Then proceeded to make sure that was the only option she had. So she is in her 30s starting college. She is not the only one this happens to. My niece is on her way to being a full on engineer. That is if her teachers do not discourage it out of her. Her sister has 0 interest in it. Her sister will do much better socially because she has no interest in it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Webweasel on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:55AM
You do have depression and its time to get some help.
Having been through it myself, I have a lot of sympathy, but therapy does work, it really does.
If you can get some, I really recommend it. I avoided it for years myself "I can get through this" but it REALLY helps. Please try it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @01:05PM
Have you thought about applying for public sector work? Sounds like you'd fit right in.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday September 24 2016, @02:27PM
Make sure when your doctor examines your depression that you get a full thyroid workup. Low thyroid is a major common cause of depression, especially of the feel-so-damn-unmotivated variety. There may be NO other obvious symptoms.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.