![]() There are many benefits for utilizing part-timers… Some part-timers have young families, older parents or family members with disabilities that they provide care for which precludes full time work.They need/want to continue to stay engaged in the workforce for a variety of reasons including wanting to still feel valuable to society and contribute, wanting to stay engaged and mentally stimulated. Older persons or retirees do not want to completely retire.Prefer part-time for work/life integration.Due to mental, emotional or physical issues, full time work would be too much for a particular person and the quality of their work would decrease with increased work hours. ![]() There are many reasons that people may want/need part-time work… Hiring part-timers will help alleviate the current staffing shortage. Many jobs/positions are structured as full time but could be restructured into several part-time positions or job sharing opportunities as solutions. In particular, this can affect whether they can actually function well in a full time position or be more successful while working fewer hours in a part time position. This can be especially challenging if there are medication changes that the body and mind are adjusting to which can affect the person’s ability to work. People with mental health issues need to be able to continue to have mental health appointments, and the medications can greatly affect appetite and energy levels. Increasingly, a large percentage of today’s youth, young adults and not-so-young adults are experiencing mental health issues as never before. There are many hard working and smart young people out there making a difference including my own adult children. I have heard people say that young people are lazy. I think if employers are only looking for full time employees and cannot find good ones, they are immediately excluding a huge population source of good candidates namely part-timers. I hear constantly across all industries that employers cannot find “good” employees. This paradigm has majorly opened up the work from home (WFH) options as never before.Įlevating part-time work is another paradigm shift and the time for this is now.Īn awareness has come to mind regarding part-timers and the value they add to an organization which also contributes to process improvement, business and organizational transformation, and long term sustainability and success. There has been a paradigm shift in the workplace due to the disruption caused by Covid. Part-timers: a staffing shortage answer that’s right in front of us. …and what this means for staffing shortages (and for job seekers) We highlight opportunities to expand the use of strategic options in fire-adapted forests to improve fuel heterogeneity.Paradigm Shift: The Power and Value of Part-timers… Fire weather captured a manager’s intent and allocation of fire management resources relative to burning conditions, where a manager’s desire and ability to suppress is either complemented by fire weather, at odds with fire weather, or put aside due to other priorities. When controlling for confounding variation, we found the 2009 Policy Guidance along with other concurrent advances in fire management motivated an estimated 27 to 73% increase in the number of fires managed with expanded strategic options, with only limited evidence of an increase in size or annual area burned. We use Incident Status Summary reports to understand how wildland fire management strategies have differed across the western US in recent years and how management has changed since the 2009 Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy. Markedly, the new guidance provided greater flexibility to manage wildland fires to meet multiple resource objectives. In 2009, new guidance for wildland fire management in the United States expanded the range of strategic options for managers working to reduce the threat of high-severity wildland fire, improve forest health and respond to a changing climate.
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