CURRENT LABOR PROBLEMS. Literature & Language Term Paper

Fissured Workplace
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Fissured Workplace
The 20th century has seen many corporations hire many workers making the basis of the U.S economy. However, maintaining the employer-employee relationship seems to be given a lower priority in comparison to maintaining client relationships for these organizations. Large corporations have turned to outsource work to small corporations that have of late been increasing in number in the market. The fissured workplace has resulted in various implications that impact the economy profoundly such as low wages, reduced benefits, lack of good health and safety coverage, and an increasing gap in income inequality (Weil, 2014). Based on this perspective, the fissuring or splitting of functions, which initially were internally managed, has been used as a business strategy allowing corporations to be more focused and drive costs down. This piece of work seeks to explore the reasons behind fissured workplace and its impacts on workers
To start with, the fissured workplace is not like any other usual business as it involves contracting services to other small-scale companies (Weil, 2017). Large corporations like Walmart, at times, cannot ship orders direct to clients. In that case, they will hire a company like Uber to make all deliveries to clients. In that case, the strategy used by big corporations is to use fewer costs by outsourcing services to small and medium companies and simultaneously driving down costs.
The organization of work has also changed, given a fissured workplace. The current workplace has changed a lot. Employment is not hedged between employer-employee relationship but on the client only (Weil, 2014). The basic terms of employment, including the hiring process, evaluation payment policies, training, and coordination of activities, are not carried out by multiple companies. Responsibilities for conditions also seem to have been overtaken by other factors due to multiple organizations being involved in the process. The workplace seems to have fissured like the way a rock develops cracks, which spread over time.
Under the fissured workplace, the conditions of work in factories and warehouses globally have also been affected in myriad ways. Manufactures in factories manufacture products after which they...