{"id":13,"date":"2018-06-11T06:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workflexi.in\/blogger\/?p=13"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:28:36","slug":"the-dark-side-of-permanent-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/the-dark-side-of-permanent-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of Permanent Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The intense competition in the job market cannot be withstood by permanent employment. In a changing global economy, what is that permanent jobs lack that has created downsides to it? Have a look\u2013 have made some points about permanent jobs that are detrimental to many employees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>No Job Security<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0No, this doesn\u2019t affect contract\/temporary jobs as much. The reason is that when an employer looks at lowering risks of approaching crises, permanent employees are very likely to be in the layoff list (you know why).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Lack of Ability to Evolve<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Permanent employees possess less relevant and in-demand skills than contractors, as the latter continuously have to make it a point to remain relevant and valuable in an ever-changing professional marketplace.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>You become Stagnant<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0The luxuries like the pay, the amount of work given, and the workplace environment, that supposedly come only with permanent jobs blinds the employees to think about any other careers, making them stagnant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>True Potential is Unknown<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0It\u2019s widely believed that a 9-5 job is like working inside a box. There\u2019s no looking beyond your own cubicle. You do not tend to discover your (other) passions, and so don\u2019t you ever know your true potential.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Lack of Flexibility<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0It\u2019s very difficult to achieve work-life balance unlike contractors who decide when, where and how they work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Blurred Buying and Selling Services<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Certain tasks other than what permanent employees were told to do, are done without realizing that it has no worth to them as professionals, but it does for their boss.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Boring Resumes<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0When companies look for an array of experiences when considering a potential candidate, having the same job for many years can have a negative impact on the employees resume.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Difficulty in Hunting for Jobs<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0After a long term full-time work, it gets hard for permanent employees dive into the pool of job-search. One may also not know where to begin. Things are of course terrible if you are fired from the job.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Lack of Network<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Permanent employment narrows down the networking opportunities. If there is good network, it\u2019s easy to land a job.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are plenty of reasons to say \u2018good-bye\u2019 to permanent jobs. Temporary employment is very useful and can be very instrumental in getting the unemployed back into the workforce. Workflexi\u00a0 &#8211; World\u2019s 1st platform to work at will!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Email ID:\u00a0 contact@workflexi.in<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intense competition in the job market cannot be withstood by permanent employment. In a changing global economy, what is that permanent jobs lack that has created downsides to it? Have a look\u2013 have made some points about permanent jobs that are detrimental to many employees. No Job Security &#8211;\u00a0No, this doesn\u2019t affect contract\/temporary jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,5,55],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workflexi","tag-flexibility","tag-the-dark-side-of-permanent-jobs","tag-true-potential"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.workflexi.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}