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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Shift-based hiring is a recruitment concept pioneered in Singapore that hires people for individual shifts, rather than hiring employees before scheduling them into shifts. Originally, it was intended as an efficient way to schedule part-time work that is shift based but it is now known that this concept can be applied to any job that requires a number of consecutive hours of commitment as a shift. This hiring concept focuses on employing workers for a particular shift on that particular day, rather than focusing on employing a worker to work recurrent shifts that can become part time or full time work, although the latter can be a result of employing a worker to work shifts that run on the same timing periodically. Every shift or a group of recurring shifts may be a unique job posting.It is also to be juxtaposed against zero-hour contract, as employees are not bounded by the contract to be on standby everyday and to be able to work whenever the employer needs additional labour. The employee adopts a proactive role in the sense that he, after viewing all the vacant shifts, offers his service for the shifts he is willing to work for, as compared to the employer offering the employee a shift that he or she might not want. The bargaining power does not lie solely with the employer, since employers hire employees for one or more shifts. The employer has the flexibility to scale up or down its labour demand, while employees have the flexibility to choose the shifts they want to work."@en }

• Shift_based_hiring abstract "Shift-based hiring is a recruitment concept pioneered in Singapore that hires people for individual shifts, rather than hiring employees before scheduling them into shifts. Originally, it was intended as an efficient way to schedule part-time work that is shift based but it is now known that this concept can be applied to any job that requires a number of consecutive hours of commitment as a shift. This hiring concept focuses on employing workers for a particular shift on that particular day, rather than focusing on employing a worker to work recurrent shifts that can become part time or full time work, although the latter can be a result of employing a worker to work shifts that run on the same timing periodically. Every shift or a group of recurring shifts may be a unique job posting.It is also to be juxtaposed against zero-hour contract, as employees are not bounded by the contract to be on standby everyday and to be able to work whenever the employer needs additional labour. The employee adopts a proactive role in the sense that he, after viewing all the vacant shifts, offers his service for the shifts he is willing to work for, as compared to the employer offering the employee a shift that he or she might not want. The bargaining power does not lie solely with the employer, since employers hire employees for one or more shifts. The employer has the flexibility to scale up or down its labour demand, while employees have the flexibility to choose the shifts they want to work.".