# 1 I would like for us to think through some strategies a manager might use when expenses are steadily growing, and they need to be brought back into a healthy budget.

Hiring part time workers is one strategy that managers use. From experience I know that part-timers can be beneficial to the organization when the part-time job is a good fit for the person. Also I’ve learned that when expenses start to climb and there are job openings, an organization can hire two part time people versus one full-time person with benefits and can save money by doing so.

Research on part time employees is fairly limited, however available data suggests that part time employees, especially students, feel extremely invested in their jobs and find value in the experience they are receiving which motivates them to be more engaged (Sollitto, Martin, Dusic, Gibbons, and Wagenhouser (2016).

Class: We know that a business benefits financially from employing part-time workers because there are little to no benefits which decreases expenses. What other advantages can you think of that would substantiate employing part-time workers? What disadvantages might there be? And, how would a business maintain a healthy balance between the number of full and part-time workers? Please discuss. 150 words

Sollitto, M., Martin, M.M., Dusic, S., Gibbons, K.E., and Wagenhouser, A. (2016). Assessing the subordinateness relationship involving part-time employees. International Journal of Business Communication, 53 (1), pp. 74-96. DOI: 10.1177/2329488414525462