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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Underworked staff

Underworked staff

  • Idle employees
  • Staff who do not work
  • Excess staff

Claim

In any human enterprise, work seeks the lowest hierarchical level.

Broader

Unethical practices by employees
Presentable
Profiteering
Presentable
Excess production capacity
Presentable
Unproductive workers
Unpresentable
Excess
Unpresentable
Social parasites
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Excessive governmental spending
Excellent
Inefficient public administration
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Workers uninterested in production
Presentable
Inadequate staffing of intergovernmental organizations
Presentable

Related

Underemployment
Presentable
Excessive salaries of international civil servants
Presentable
Underpayment of government officials
Unpresentable
Disparity in remuneration between public and private sector employees
Unpresentable

Strategy

Providing work
Yet to rate
Promoting laziness
Yet to rate
Improving labour productivity
Yet to rate
Creating meaningful work
Yet to rate

Value

Work
Yet to rate
Overwork
Yet to rate
Idleness
Yet to rate
Excess
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Social activity » Work
  • Social activity » Employees
  • Social activity » Staff
  • Health care » Who bodies
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J3916
    DOCID
    12039160
    D7NID
    140592
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024