The article
I choose to read deals with a topic that we have not talked much about. In our research we have focused heavily on
the actual pharmaceutical companies but not the jobs that go along with the pharmaceutical
industry. We have talked slightly about the
jobs within the companies but one job that relies heavily on the pharmaceutical
industry is that of a pharmacist. The
article that I read talks about workforce trends dealing with pharmacists. I have previously talked about the workforce
trend dealing with outsourcing and moving manufacturing overseas. Everything that the pharmaceutical industry
does is in order to make a profit.
Workforce trends are tied closely to that of the economic trend.
The article
talks about recent trends dealing with pharmacists since the recession. As would be expected pharmacist jobs have
been cut back, but not at an alarming rate.
The demand for pharmacists is still very high in the pharmaceutical
world. The author of the article feels
that the demand for pharmacists will continue to increase. The author discusses how the amount of women
in the pharmacist workforce has increased 15% in 19 years. The split between men and women is almost
50/50. The amount of pharmacists working full time has decreased 6% while the
number of part time workers has increased 6%.
It seems that more workers have been moved from full time to part time
in order to cut costs. The decreasing of
hours while still maintaining the same amount of work means that the pharmacist’s
workload is sufficiently increased and the amount of stress they feel also has
increased.
This
article shows that although the recession did not hit very close to home in
respects to the big companies profits, it did do a good amount of damage to
smaller things such as jobs with relation to the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacist like big pharmaceutical companies
are part of the lucky ones though; although there has been a little bit of a
hit due to the recession there will always be a need for drugs which means that
people will always be able to find jobs in these ever prosperous industries.
Rachael
Bieck
I found this very interesting because as I was doing research about pharmaceutical companies I began to notice how they did not seem to be affected as badly profit wise as other industries by the recession. I did not realize how much it affected jobs within the industries.
ReplyDeleteThis article shows how little we have focused on the community aspect of the pharmaceutical industry. Big pharma seems like this giant machine that nobody really sees but everyone knows about. The trickle down effect that they have is substantial and to talk about pharmacists as part of this industry was not something that had even crossed my mind.
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