Wal-Mart Moves To Unpredictable Shifts
Posted by Slobokan @ 12:17 pm · 126 words · print
In a move that will effect nearly every Wal-Mart employee…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news) will start moving many of its 1.3 million workers from predictable shifts to a system based on how many customers are in stores at a given time, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Wal-Mart will start making the changes this year with the help of a new computerized scheduling system, the paper said.
The move promises more productivity and consumer satisfaction, but could demand more flexibility and availability from workers in place of reliable shifts and predictable pay checks, the Journal reported.
Can you imagine what this will do? Instead of living “predictable paycheck to reliable paycheck”, people will be living “unpredictable paycheck to maybe paycheck”
Cross-posted at Kooks In Suits
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Posted by Kooks In Suits
January 3, 2007 @ 12:23 pm
Wal-Mart Moves To Unpredictable Shifts
In a move that will effect nearly every Wal-Mart employee…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news) will start moving many of its 1.3 million workers from predictable shifts to a system based on how many customers are in stores at a given time, The…
Posted by Bridget
January 3, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
wow… I’m glad I don’t work there anymore!!
Posted by judy moyer
January 9, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
I worked in a grocery store for years and they did this. It isn’t fair to people who work hard for the company