Editing Job rotation (section)

== History ==
Records show job rotation has been used by communal societies, such as the [[Shakers]] since the nineteenth century.<ref name=":0" />

There is evidence that job rotation has been practiced by firms in [[Japan]] since the early 1950’s.<ref name=":0" /> [[Mazda Motor Corporation|Toyo Kogyo Company]] the Japanese firm that now produces Mazda automobiles, has been one such company.<ref name="Lohr1982">{{cite news |last1=Lohr |first1=Steve |date=12 July 1982 |title=How job rotation works for Japanese |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/12/business/how-job-rotation-works-for-japanese.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Toyo has used job rotation to redeploy staff during economic events, but does exclude some expert areas from their system (e.g. research and development).<ref name="Lohr1982" />

Potentially due to the widespread usage of job rotation in Japan and the success of Japanese firms, interest in job rotation increased in the United States of America in the 1980's.<ref name=":0" />

The concept of job rotation has also been used to develop [[Active labour market policies|active labor market policies]]. A scheme introduced in [[Denmark]] in the early 1990’s supported unemployed people to rotate into the jobs of employed people, to enable them to participate in further training.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hutchinson |first=J |date=1999 |title=Job Rotation: Linking learning, business growth and unemployment? |url=https://doi-org.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/10.1080/02690949908726486 |journal=Local Economy |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=175–179|doi=10.1080/02690949908726486 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>