Downsized_Workforce

Downsized Workforce Downsized Workforce From the beginning of time life depended on the hard work of the human being. As time progressed and labor was made easier for employees of companies, jobs were cut and lost because of the technological advances in the work places. Organizations are now doing this all over the world and people are losing their jobs and more importantly the means of providing and surviving in this day and age is becoming uncertain for millions of people. Jeremy Rifkin said in “The End of Work”, “Intelligent machines are replacing human beings in countless tasks, forcing millions of blue and white collar workers into unemployment lines, or worse still, breadlines.” (Rifkin. Everyday Arguments. Longman Publishers. 1950 Pg.320) People should fear the word downsizing because it is the current, visible form of termination in the workplace that threatens the meaning of life itself. Work, which is essential for personal existence for individuals and communities must be restored so that people will feel a since of belonging in the workplace and for just spiritual awareness in people’s lives. According to George Ritzer it is called Mcdonaldization. Ritzer defines McDonaldization as “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming because, jobs, work, people, machines, time, mcdonald’s, human, rifkin, money, employees, workplace, technology, job, employee, said, run, humans, fries, end, being, save, ritzer, publishers, part-time, need, million, mcdonaldization, make, machine, longman, little, labor, keep, jeremy, find