Public Sector being a Guarantor of Job Security is a Myth

Public sector is always a guarantor of job security, it's not a myth. If the employees of public sector will loss their job without committing any crime, they will get lots of money (in the form of VRS or one time settlement).

Definitely Public sector provides job security as once you get the job you don't need to worry about your future unlike pvt sector where there is no guaranty of your job. It also has many benefits like particular job timing, less responsibility, less work, many perks provided by govt.

But in pvt sector you have to be very punctual & hard working, work long hours, stay up-to-date. You also have to listen your boss whatever he will say to you, you will have to follow his instructions whether you like or not as your promotion solely depend on him.

Hi friends I am a B.Tech Electrical Engineer having two year experience. Actually government Job is best by above discussed. Finally I joined a government job that is primary teacher of state government Odisha. Thanks.

Public Sector offering Job security is not a myth yes it does provide a security for your family and appears to be a recurring source of income. You will never get sacked or retrenched or laid off (except in the case of gross misconduct which is in specific should be proved against you in the domestic/departmental enquiry).

Bifurcating the public sector into further parts as PSB and PSU/PSE, one can analyse a slight difference in these two, since I have worked in both the sectors. The difference is off work, learning, skills you will in culminate. In PSB (Banks & FI's) the you can swim along the pool of diversified work, however, the security of job remains with a probability of odd postings and transfer and you can't settle yourself at one place. On the other hand, PSU offers you a competitive high salary, though not facilities sometimes but there is the security of your job which moves along with the security of posting and fewer transfers. The pity about the PSU is that you will never get the opportunity to improve your skills and knowledge unless you are in such department which is directly concerned with the working specialisation of such PSU (generally it is the technical field) or it's not in your veins to accept such pathetic atmosphere and silly procedures. The experienced people sitting there are pathetic who don't want to develop and excel themselves but won't even let you accelerate.

On the other hand, private Sector (i will also include entrepreneurship/start-ups in this) offers fantastic salary may be fewer perquisites, allowances and facilities) but if you want to work and have the capability to show and let people witness you, then nothing is the barrier in Private Sector. On my personal side, my brother is in the major company in the private sector and his salary is 3 times to mine salary (i am in a major PSU), both are in managerial capacities. So its up to you either have job security and don't do anything relax in your office do politics, misutilise your office infrastructure and tea and snacks and leave the office in evening, or have job security but try to do something and show yourself (it do require guts to go against top honchos in PSU/PSB) , Do something which shows and proves you in front of others which ultimately guarantees you job security and the capability to switch for better opportunities in a demanding position.

Public sector being a guarantor of job security is not a myth even in the worst scenarios of winding up, close down or Government feeding with the spoon of survival/revival packages. (may affect workmen but not managerial person, may affect perquisites or quantum of salary, but not your recurring source of income).

I stand to the myth of the topic. Public sector gives job security on the other hand Private jobs are not secured.

Points raised in above discussion are that public sector is full of politics and in private a person can show their skill. Well since I have been part of both these sector, politics is a virus which is present everywhere be it PSU/PSB/Private sectors.

It all depends on how you maintain your position, one has to maintain cordial environment, in other words use your "Skills -Intelligently and Efficiently', and then see great things starts coming to you.

Public sector is serving your nation proudly.

Private sector is part of business. Both jobs are goods.

According to me, public sector is far better than private sector. It gives job security to every employee, it gives a opportunity to every worker to build up with their feelings and with all humanity, whereas in private sector a heavy work pressure snatch all their interest and their enthusiasm, they became feeling less material. Not only job security it also important for the growth of our countries development. All the public sector work for the benefit of the country man. Whereas most of private sector not at all bother about country or for country man, they always belief for their profit only and do only on that way. To keep control our economy, and make it stable, public sector is mostly needed.

You may put long leave to your PSU/PSC job and can work for your desired company in private sector for 2 to 5 years in India or out of India by taking prior permission and by following the norms of PSU/PSC's and after the leave you can rejoin in your services which doesn't costs you in the loss of Seniority among your colleagues except slight difference in the salaries.

If you start your career as a private employee, after getting dissatisfaction on it, it will be little hard to get the job in govt sector as you might have deviated from the core subject.

You should compete with people who are already taking coaching for PSU's and even with newly passed out candidates, who will be in lakhs.

You should satisfy with the starting salary in govt job which will be less than your present private job salary. The same job experience in govt might have offered you higher salary.

Think about your position at the age of 45 or 50. Can you really compete with the youngsters in private company which can no longer shows interest in you at that age?

Govt job has lot of offers and opportunities to benefit you and your family. You can take study leave even getting paid half of your salary.

Hi Friends.

According to my opinion public sector job is more better to private sector. Because I m also employee of private sector. In private job we have no time for our family. No any proper job time then you can say sometime 10 to 12 hour daily work. So that create lots of health problems like mental pressure, blood pressure, tension etc. I wanna say to you money is not important than our health & our life. So public sector is better compare to private sector. Less tension, less problems.

Thank you.

Initially the best talent is recruited in govt or psu's but the problem with these employees is they donot update their knowledge over years. In pvt sector this is not the case they have to get updated with knowledge year by year for their survival. This way an average pvt sector employee earns more skills with advanced technology than the best recruited talent of govt or psu companies over years. The psu's talent is best initially but not over a certain time period. Let us take a simple example of a govt teacher, when a state govt recruits, best teachers are recruited. These teacher's get higher salaries than private teachers. Over the period the private teachers who earn much less than the govt teachers, perform lot better than the govt teachers. The private teachers update their methodologies, skills and try to improve the processes within schools year by year.

The govt organizations, units and public sector companies function well only when job security is removed. When job security is removed, people update knowledge and work hard for the sake of survival. I agree that some psu employees work very hard, working very hard is not the only important thing, updating skills too is equally important. Updated skills will make a person work using advanced technologies with less effort and if people do hard work along with this, the work quality goes exponential. With hard work the work quality will only be linear but with updated skills and hard work combined the work quality becomes exponential.

Removal of job security forces people to update knowledge, work hard improving the work quality and running the psu's in unimaginable profits. The psu's too will start recruiting employees in large scale creating more no of jobs with with performance based job security, good work life balance and decent salary.

All those people working in govt jobs will you send your kids to govt school. Do you travel by govt bus? How about visiting a govt hospital?