The Shift to Non-Standard Employment part 1 Contents 2. More jobs are part-time. More women are balancing paid work with work in the home.
More people are self-employed.
More workplaces are getting by with lower staffing levels. Both paid and unpaid overtime work are on the increase. The British management scholar, Charles Handy, predicts that all competitive firms and institutions of the future will have three types of workers. Handy uses the term shamrock organization to describe the organizational structure he envisions, with each type of worker representing one of the leaves in a shamrock. The first leaf of the shamrock is made up of the professional core.