Timesizing ®  not downsizing
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TIMESIZING is the missing plan of the Occupy movement. It means cutting the workweek to spread employment (& markets!), instead of cutting jobs (& markets). Its emergency form WORKSHARING is already saving jobs. Timesizing means more jobs, shorter hours & higher pay cuz you cut surplus of labor. See our time trilogy & blog.
Unemployed? POed at the older generation for leaving you with all these megaprobs? Bored with the same ol', same ol' "crises"? Well here's one fully developed solution, the Timesizing Program. Its 5 phases provide a pattern for upgrades and an improving regional, national & global future of 500+ years. To save the world, you can't start with hunger - no one with money is hungry. You can't start with poverty (lack of money) - no one with a good job is poor. It all comes down to jobs. And jobs come down to time on the job. Mess up your time arrangements & you mess up your whole society, cuz time counts it all. Wage workers & contractors already track their billable time with software like *mytimeforce time&attendance. Piece workers & salarymen will require shadow timing. Timesizing is an economic design for sustainable, market-based jobs by making the workweek lower while making high tech higher.
    hope du jourtm  – TIMESIZING instead of downsizing in the news (archives) -
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    Google Search newsclips of what the world's doing that's on the right track - here's our latest ranking of leading countries - 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 is the world's most common (but least publicized and never fully exploited) response to downturn, that's reinvented thousands of times a day in every recession by businesses & governments, for ex.,*Wash. State's video on replacing downsizing with timesizing alias 'shared work' - in each case, more jobs would have been lost without the hours-cuts or furloughs -
  1. Pioneer Press workers get two more layoff-free months, MinnPost.com (blog)
    ST. PAUL, Minn. - ...The Guild — which represents the newsroom and many business departments – will continue to swallow a 37.5-hour workweek first agreed to last January. That deal cut pay proportionately from a 40-hour week. The no-layoff provision has preserved headcount at the state’s second-largest daily [the St. Paul Pioneer Press daily], at least among union types... - see whole article under today's date.
    [Voilà, a classic example of timesizing, not downsizing. And here's another -]
  2. Adair County Road and Bridge Department cutting back, KTVO via heartlandconnection.com
    KIRKSVILLE, Mo. - ...The department will be cutting back from 40 hours a week to 32 hours a week. The economy has taken a major toll on the department, so Adair County Commissioners have decided to go this route rather than lay off employees... - see whole article under today's date.
    Shorter hours are happening anyway, but not the best way which maintains personal income and vital consumer spending via emergency worksharing and sustainable timesizing. We simply can't perpetuate a pre-computer 40-hour workweek forever into the age of robotics. It may be fun to sneer at those who believe in the "fixed lump of labor fallacy" based on the obviously infinite amount of work to be done, but there ain't an infinite amount of money to pay for it, and without pay, it ain't work - it's just hobby. We need to take charge of this workweek-trimming process, systematize it and make sure it happens in a way that absorbs the surplus of jobseekers, gets employers bidding against one another for good help, thereby harnesses market forces to flexibly maintain and raise wages and spending, leeches money out of the huge black hole of income and wealth in the top 0.01%, and gets those trillions back into circulation. Shorter hours is a strategy that is reinvented hundreds of times a day across the U.S. in this recession and thousands of times a day across the world in both public & private sectors, in every industry, and in a variety of ways. Many countries and U.S. states already have worksharing programs to cushion the transition to permanently shorter workweeks that automatically adjust to our rising levels of productive technology in the Age of Robotics. These programs currently are designed to be temporary. Here's what their permanent program will look like when they finally succumb to the inevitable.
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Timesizing means full employment without makework, falling wages, or rising price levels.
 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...
  • repeating our basic economic slogan - "No Overtime Alone!" - in other words, if a manager 'needs' overtime (OT), s/he either hires temps or makes sure the skill bottleneck behind the OT gets opened up by setting up OT-targeted training
  • asking one another, "What's the workweek this month?" - in other words, work pressures are dynamically shared as incoming technology cuts their duration but boosts their stress
  • accommodating workoholics while blocking inflation, by unleashing "love to work" incentive (deflationary) while capping the money motive (inflationary), & balancing the two... - meanwhile, if you're a night person preferring work after normal business hours (and you're in the UK), *evening jobs that suit your lifestyle still exist and may exist in your area
    • For over eight years (1999-2004 and 2009-), we at the Timesizing Wire have been tracking what's rancid beneath the "recovery" via the top 2 U.S. newspapers, the Wall St. Journal on the right & the New York Times on the left with occasional input from the London Economist on the right, the Boston Globe on the left, Canada's national paper, the Toronto Globe & Mail, and regional papers around Ottawa & Québec. We pick up timesizing stories mainly from Google News Search. From 2005 to 2008, we paused to establish a Canadian branch when the USA failed to dump the kamekazi Bush regime, and now that the US is back to the slower Democratic rate of self-deterioration, we've resumed our daily updates.
            Timesizing’s 3rd way is centrist and deep green, not just light or pinkish green like the Green Party's grocery list of ad hoc, unintegrated & unprioritized issues. Timesizing satisfies the right with smaller government and bigger firmer markets & the left with a simpler stronger social safety net that makes the right clean up their own recessions instead of continuously inducing them by privatizing and concentrating profits & nationalizing and centrifuging losses. Our Timesizing solution is based on working models, American history (especially 1933), on economic design, on ecology, and on worktime economics, linguistics, Limits to Growth, and Buckminster Fuller.  The deep green center is the future, and we strategize for the next 100-500 years, not just the next quarterly report or four-year presidential term. Our site is always under construction. *Asterisked links take you *outside our site.

    the problem, vs.
    the timesizing solution
             (in deteriorating stages)                               (in stepped enhancements)                    
  • long workweek; short vacation
    		•
    clue 1
  • electronic democracy vs PACs & lobbyists
  • downsizing; makework
  • market reinvestment vs corporate welfare
  • takeovers;  bankruptcy;  prison
    • clue 2
  • job&wage insurance vs gov't jobs programs
  • unemployment;  homelessness
  • geared to problem vs emotional guesswork
  • vanishing retirement;  disability
    • clue 3
  • plugging leaks vs Stinnes and Malthus
  • suicides;  headlines from hell
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  • transitions vs abrupt cures worse than disease

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