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Table 10 Downsizing, outsourcing, technological displacement

From: What do people do at work?Was machen Menschen bei der Arbeit?

 

All

Upper WC

Low WC

Upper BC

Low BC

Service

Employment change

Lot less

6

6

4

8

12

3

A little less

12

12

14

14

10

9

About same

50

48

47

52

47

60

More

33

35

35

25

12

29

Permanent layoffs

8

7

7

7

16

5

Outsourcing

4

3

3

5

13

2

Personally laid off

10

7

10

15

16

10

Replaced by machine

–

–

–

–

1

1

Ever on strike

3

2

2

8

7

2

  1. Note: All figures are percentages. Cells with (–) have rounded values less than 1 %