Job rotation


Job rotation is a technique used by some employers to rotate their employees' assigned jobs throughout their employment. Research indicates that job rotation enables cost savings. [1]


Job rotation in action

Toyo Kogyo Company

Toyo Kogyo Company produces Mazda automobiles. Toyo Kogyo has been practicing job rotation for over 20 years as a direct result of the oil embargo of the 1960s.[2] Toyo looked to job rotation to fill gaps in experience due to the cutbacks needed during a downturn in the economy.

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation now uses job rotation as a means to fill temporary positions from within their own organization.[3] These assignments are meant to rein in restless workers as well as giving opportunities to employees to learn new technologies and strategies that they may not have been familiar with before. Many employees who experience this form of job rotation are given looks into fields that may be foreign letting them have a greater understanding of the company as a whole.

Virgin America

Virgin America has experimented with a one-year employee exchange program with Virgin Australia. The two companies traded flight attendants between each other.[3]

Unilever

Unilever now enables job rotation for its employees.[4]

References
  1. Arya, Anil, and Brian Mittendorf. "Using Optional Job Rotation Programs to Gauge On-the-job Learning". Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) / Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft 162.3 (2006): 505–515. https://www.jstor.org
  2. Times, Steve Lohr, Special To The New York (1982-07-12). "HOW JOB ROTATION WORKS FOR JAPANESE". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  3. Weber, Lauren; Kwoh, Leslie (2012-02-21). "Co-Workers Change Places". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  4. "Career Development & Internal Mobility, Solved | InnerMobility". Retrieved 2019-04-17.
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