Taking time to reach potential at work
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For some reason, On the Pulse was immediately interested when it came across some research on a thing called ‘Job Lag’. Perhaps some of our less charitable readers could draw certain inferences from that, but nevertheless, job lag costs Australia more than $6 billion a year and not even On the Pulse could rack up that amount on its own.
Job lag is the time it takes for a new employee to reach ‘optimal productivity’, and since On the Pulse is a well oiled, optimally-primed machine it probably contributes very little to that $6 billion. But we digress.
Optimal productivity is reached when a new employee becomes as good as the person they replaced (that’s assuming the person they replaced actually reached optimal productivity in the first place).
As everyone knows a new job involves increased supervision and that increases stress on the remaining employees and there are a whole heap of other intangible costs to businesses involved too. Basically it’s the old case of new employees being simply useless until they actually know what they’re doing.
The government read the report and was very sympathetic. It knows all about this sort of thing. Thus the world’s first Hit The Ground Running program was born. Its aim is to save Australian businesses billions of dollars and benefit long-term unemployed and disadvantaged groups (just who saves or benefits the most remains to be seen), but On the Pulse was left wondering which MPs will do the course first to save the taxpayer billions of dollars?
Keeping up with the debate in the senate
Speaking of job lag, Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie (if we may still call her that) stood up in the House on Monday and launched into an attack against planned government changes to university fees.
On the Pulse thinks it was such a shame that that wasn't the bill before the house at the time. The Senate was debating the Australian Education Amendment Bill, which provided a small boost in funding for indigenous boarding schools and closes loopholes in education policy.
University fees legislation wasn’t on the schedule until Tuesday, and when acting deputy Senate president, Cory Bernardi, politely pointed out the error to Senator Lambie she ignored him briefly, seemingly confused by what was going on.
Things like that make On the Pulse wonder just how much the public bill for job lag would amount to.
Concerns about the new free trade deal
We heard BJ tell Nine News that consumers have very valid concerns about what Australia’s Free Trade Agreement with China might do to their weekly shopping bill. Now that’s one On the Pulse didn’t see coming; BJ may finally get his $100 roast!
Get out of work on time, at least once
Wednesday was the sixth annual ‘Go Home On Time Today’.
It is a great way to recognise that life doesn’t need to revolve around work.
On the Pulse thought that was an excellent concept and agreed wholeheartedly with its principles, and was about to walk out the door - when it realised this had yet to be written and someone had to stay back to do it.