== Advantages and Disadvantages of Job Rotation == 

 There are many ways that one can attempt to reduce injuries and workload on the job, one if the major method is job rotation.  Job rotation is considered a form of teamwork, and can be described as “regularly alternating between different jobs within an organization on the basis of a scheme or spontaneously alternating on the basis of the workers’ personal needs.”  There are many advantages and disadvantages of the job rotation based on design of work, variation, and how it affects job rotation.  Many benefits have been attainted from using job rotation, including cross training, reduce boredom, stress, absenteeism, increase innovation and motivation, and productivity among other things.   

 According to a UK Journal Ergonomics, volume 46 “ The effects of job rotation on the risk of reporting low back pain” the major benefit of job rotation uses flexibility to reduce and control work related injuries such as musculoskeletal disorders, stress, and fatigue, among jobs that use various muscles within the human body.  For example, an employee who load pallets may experience lower back pain and then gets rotated to assembling may experience upper limb pains, this rotation can occur ranging from hours (2) to days, depending on engineering (controls physical manipulations) and administration (change the duties or design of the job) according to the research In the article from Ergonomics, volume 46.   Another example is truck drivers who drive only or those who collects merchandise.  According to a research by the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit… “Effects of job rotation on Work Demands, Workload, and Recovery of the Refuse Truck Divers and collectors” the research reveled an job rotation ended with an increase in physical work in comparison to driving only and it did not increase mental work in comparison to collecting only.  Another study of the study of job rotation was based on the characteristics of lifting task, gender specific lifting, among other things should not exceed seven hours according to Carnahan et al.. Another effect to of job rotation was to reduce the pace at which an employee work and allowing breaks prior to fatigue. 
 It has been said that variation in jobs will reduce injuries to employees’ muscles, by determining what aspect of the job should be rotated, equally distributing the tasks from complex to simple from employee to employee.  Evaluating weather the parameters are repetitive, posture, and movement of the employee. 

  	 There are many ways in which job rotation can either work in positive and negative aspect, of a organization but, at the end of the day it all comes down to whether or not it is distributed properly by administration inorder to reduce injury, fatigue and stress.