Topic > Case Study on Job Insecurity - 1066

The proportion of part-time and temporary work in the total workforce has increased compared to the past, which causes companies to attract more of these types of workers, as it is easier to fire them in the face of downsizing. (Booth et al., 2002) Another argument supporting the importance and increase of job insecurity concerns the total number of people who feel insecure. In fact, “the uncertain population may be considerably larger than the number of employees who actually lose their jobs”, since the perception is completely different from the current situation, and the data also shows that, over the last five years, this perception of job insecurity has increased in most European countries (De Weerdt et al., 2004). Furthermore, according to a study conducted by Randstad (2014) on what is most relevant to employees immediately after salary and benefits (62%), Temporary job insecurity (54%) was the second most predominant