You wouldn’t believe how many French people believe that profitable businesses should be forbidden from firing employees. I suspect it’s a double-digit percent of the population. Hard to explain why it’s a bad idea to people unable to think in systems.
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And in France, with our high unemployment, getting back can be very hard when you fall through. So there's some truth in their perception.
No doubt it is hard to get hired when it's impossible to fire someone you've hired by mistake. So this phenomenon is self-perpetuating...
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Of course, it’s a vicious cycle. Hard to break. An argument that I’ve found to make people question their beliefs is to highlight that the worst job satisfaction in France is among public servants who can’t be fired. Helps them see that firing could be part of the solution.
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Isn't life satisfaction more relevant is that case, because the "no firing" policy is to provide a better lifestyle for everyone, not better jobs? And if so, what is the relative life satisfaction of public servants?
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Yes. I often tell French people that the best social safety net is a low unemployment rate.
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The causal relationship between low job security and low unemployment rate is tenuous at best. The US and in particular the SV are outliers.
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Yeah, always confused why folks don't get that - of course we need to protect people at some level everyone can debate, but hard-to-fire hurts innovation, startups, and risk-takers most. Won't generate employment, hurts resource re-deployment for growth, hiring, etc.
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