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Originally Posted by smooth
Your argument doesn't even make sense.
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Sorry you had trouble understanding it. It certainly appears that you're not an employer.
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Originally Posted by smooth
Granting your experience is representative of the population wage earners, and it certainly hasn't meshed with my experience, how would costs increase if you are merely hiring someone to fill a spot someone else left?
Your argument was that people are paid more, then they take time off.
You have to hire someone to fill in that time.
Costs rise.
This argument is bogus.
If you hire someone to fill someone else's timeslot, then your costs remain the same because you simply use the money you would have paid the person who was supposed to be working to pay the wages of the fill-in. Even better, most places I've had experience with pay their part-time workers a lower wage than their full-time workers (and don't give them benefits). So if anything happens other than costs remaining stable, the alternative would be that your overhead actually decreases when the full-time worker goes home and the part-time worker steps in for one or two days per week.
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I shouldn't have to explain this, but....
Depending on the size of your company, the additional time off can easily reach a total equal to the annual hours of one or more full-time employees. It's not a matter of simply finding one part-timer.
If that isn't enough, in some lines of work, it is difficult to find people who only want part-time work. Even when it is possible, there are a great many costs that a business incurs that are in direct proportion to the number of employees, both part-time and full-time:
1. Health insurance (!!!!!)
2. Uniforms
3. Training
4. Continuing education
5. Paid holidays
6. Paid vacations
7. Sick days
8. 401 K matches
9. Employee discounts on the company's products
10. Employee-specific protective clothing/accoutrements
11. Bonuses, both production oriented and holiday
12. Background check expenses
13. Down time in which to conduct interviews
14. Down time to check references
15. Advertising for employees/employment agency finder's fees
16. Payments to temporary employee agencies
17. Additional fees to payroll processing companies
The above are some of the reasons it is cheaper for many companies to pay overtime routinely, rather than hire more employees.
FWIW, it would be easier to write non-sarcastic responses if the tenor of your response were a little more civil.