Full employment

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1. We regulate the normal work-week to be shorter, so when we are in a pinch people can move to some other place without reduction in output in the place they are leaving because those remaining do overtime.
2. We can't stack overtime on top of overtime without limit though. We need data about how easy it is to interrupt and continue different activities and storage costs of the intermediate results. It will be especially those tasks that are cheap in these interruption costs that will replace unemployment as a pool.
3. We should plan as much as possible with person-hours rather than jobs, a given amount of person-hours to be done doesn't imply an exact number of people doing that.

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No we actually shouldn't force the old and the crippled to work until they die

that's not what is meant by this, it's about abolishing the reserve labour army.

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Just give people more time off. Have a 20 hour work week be the default, then make small adjustments to meet demand.
In the long run we should be aiming for full automation anyway, so allocating labor is only a short-term problem.

Employment statistics are only relative to people eligible to be working, i.e. people who aren't retired, disabled, or unable to work for any other reason. "Full employment" means that of people who are eligible for work, all of them are working. The United States reports a 3.8% unemployment rate right now, but that doesn't mean that 96.2% of 330,000,000 people are all working. It means that of people who are
1) Not retired
2) Not disabled (or not enough to be prevented from working)
3) Either employed or looking for employment
96.2% of them are currently employed.

When people talk about full employment they are normally talking about active population working, the elder, the disabled and students are considered inactive population, inactive people cannot be unemployed by definition.
And yeah, to answer OP's question, we can always force the cripple or the old to work so we can end a project in a new industry, lol!

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