Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
Thanks dude. Article was pretty informative
32 hour 4 day work week study was a huge success in the U.K.
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Yapdatfool
Superstar
You mean you can work more efficiently and have one weekday off to spend money stimulating the economy and taking care of yourself, family and friends?!
HOLY shyt
HOLY shyt
Absolut
Legal Bookie
Pool_Shark
Can’t move with me in this digital space
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
I like it. Don't know if it can work across the board, but I think most job roles could do it. I definitely would be way more efficient with 4 8's. Would definitely have tertiary effects like family planning.
Eternal Tecate
Superstar
Socially Necessary Labor Time is even less than 32/ week. Cutting labor hours is the only political issue I care about.
How does the 4 day schedule work?! Fri, Sat and Sun off or Sat, Sun and Mon off?
EA
A Pound & A Prayer
A lot of companies in financial sector are having higher levels of attrition because people aren’t trying to work in jobs that require 10 hour days anymore. People 40 and under don’t place the same importance on working long hours as the previous generation so companies will have no choice but to adapt otherwise they’re going to struggle to recruit.
Anecdotally, I know someone that worked in HR for Nomura and she said they were struggling to hire graduates because the company was still insisting on full time working in the office and these youngsters aren’t trying to hear that.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
Might as well. I don't even work 32 hours a week half the time anyway.
I'll say it till the end of time, 6 hours a day, 4 days a week would have the most productive workforce of all time. 40 hours is for the birds, I was doing minimum effort and would take so many short cuts just to make it to Friday. 4 6's would have me productive as hell
richbosszar
Pro
it will when zoomers come to power, give it 20 years max
Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
In some Europeans countries like Finland and Denmark I see this being the norm.
The cruelty is the point in America. These companies know all of this, they pay people to study these things internally and give reports. Having a certain level of money and power over people rots your brain. When you're presented with rational options, you'll ignore those options and continue doing what you've been doing that doesn't work because you haven't been made to experience the consequences of your behavior.
If an alcoholic has an unlimited budget, he won't see his alcoholism as a problem. It's not getting in the way of his work because he's independently wealthy. He isn't at risk of losing his housing because he owns it and his bills are all autopay. Sure his home literally looks like a fukking garbage dump, his body is disgusting from neglecting his hygiene and his liver is a ticking time bomb, but as far as he's concerned everything is okay. He is not feeling immediate consequences for his addiction so he has zero reason to change.
Wealth in america is similar. If you were a rational capitalist and not one whose brain has been melted by excessive profits to the point where money is meaningless--you would be in favor of whatever helps your workers stay working, keeps them happy, and keeps you paid. In America though where Capitalism is being left to run rampant, you suffer from wealth poisoning, gain a virtually unlimited budget and stop making rational decisions.
If there is a higher federal minimum wage, this allows more people to afford products and services--They oppose this.
If there were unions, skilled employees would remain in the company for longer since they'd have more protections--They oppose this.
Shorter work weeks would mean more time for people to go out and spend money on products and services--They oppose this.
A public option would mean companies spending less on offering health insurance--They oppose this.
"I'm a capitalist, but I oppose measures that would allow more people to participate in capitalism"
"I don't care how much harder the frontline employees work. I deserve more money as an individual than 10 of them make"
Those two thoughts basically sums up the average mindset of a manager in America. It's completely irrational and only makes sense if you have the mindset of an addict who needs to get his fix. "enough" is not a word that exists in the vocabulary of an addict. I can't have enough alcohol in my blood. I can't inject enough heroin. I can't sniff enough cocaine. The only thing that makes an addict stop consuming their substance of choice is when they physically can't consume any more or are made to stop by a third party. The European union and some countries in it are like a bar with a bar tender and security that will cut you off and drag you out when you've had enough and start getting belligerent and really for your own good. America is a bar where the alcoholic has a gun, the bar has no security, and the bar tender has to keep pouring up or else the alcoholic will shoot him and just drink everything in the building.
The cruelty is the point in America. These companies know all of this, they pay people to study these things internally and give reports. Having a certain level of money and power over people rots your brain. When you're presented with rational options, you'll ignore those options and continue doing what you've been doing that doesn't work because you haven't been made to experience the consequences of your behavior.
If an alcoholic has an unlimited budget, he won't see his alcoholism as a problem. It's not getting in the way of his work because he's independently wealthy. He isn't at risk of losing his housing because he owns it and his bills are all autopay. Sure his home literally looks like a fukking garbage dump, his body is disgusting from neglecting his hygiene and his liver is a ticking time bomb, but as far as he's concerned everything is okay. He is not feeling immediate consequences for his addiction so he has zero reason to change.
Wealth in america is similar. If you were a rational capitalist and not one whose brain has been melted by excessive profits to the point where money is meaningless--you would be in favor of whatever helps your workers stay working, keeps them happy, and keeps you paid. In America though where Capitalism is being left to run rampant, you suffer from wealth poisoning, gain a virtually unlimited budget and stop making rational decisions.
If there is a higher federal minimum wage, this allows more people to afford products and services--They oppose this.
If there were unions, skilled employees would remain in the company for longer since they'd have more protections--They oppose this.
Shorter work weeks would mean more time for people to go out and spend money on products and services--They oppose this.
A public option would mean companies spending less on offering health insurance--They oppose this.
"I'm a capitalist, but I oppose measures that would allow more people to participate in capitalism"
"I don't care how much harder the frontline employees work. I deserve more money as an individual than 10 of them make"
Those two thoughts basically sums up the average mindset of a manager in America. It's completely irrational and only makes sense if you have the mindset of an addict who needs to get his fix. "enough" is not a word that exists in the vocabulary of an addict. I can't have enough alcohol in my blood. I can't inject enough heroin. I can't sniff enough cocaine. The only thing that makes an addict stop consuming their substance of choice is when they physically can't consume any more or are made to stop by a third party. The European union and some countries in it are like a bar with a bar tender and security that will cut you off and drag you out when you've had enough and start getting belligerent and really for your own good. America is a bar where the alcoholic has a gun, the bar has no security, and the bar tender has to keep pouring up or else the alcoholic will shoot him and just drink everything in the building.
