{"id":13850,"date":"2016-03-30T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13850"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:45:45","slug":"professional-queuers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/professional-queuers\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Queuers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/033016_1544_Professiona1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist took a look at an exciting Italian startup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Italians spend 400 hours a year \u2013 almost one business month \u2013 in queues, primarily for paperwork.<\/li>\n<li>This is estimated to cost the economy \u20ac40 billion.<\/li>\n<li>One entrepreneur decided to ease the burden by offering to find people who will queue for as little as \u20ac10 an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Potential employees are given a five-hour course over Skype where they are taught about the procedures required for various documents that they&#8217;ll likely queue up for.<\/li>\n<li>Of course hiring a queuer requires\u2026more paperwork, including paying for welfare contributions, thus adding to the root of the problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/europe\/21695055-italian-red-tape-means-jobs-those-who-stand-line-worth-their-wait-gold?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/europe\/21695055-italian-red-tape-means-jobs-those-who-stand-line-worth-their-wait-gold?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist took a look at an exciting Italian startup: Italians spend 400 hours a year \u2013 almost one business month \u2013 in queues, primarily for paperwork. This is estimated to cost the economy \u20ac40 billion. One entrepreneur decided to ease the burden by offering to find people who will queue for as little as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/033016_1544_Professiona1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13852,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions\/13852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}