I have no link. Just heard this news on the radio. Some companies are praising the 4 day workweek. They say that this way the employees can rest more and become more productive for the companies.
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1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)3 children
Same wage, the only requirement is that you complete the same amount of work in those fewer hours. We won't see lower wages, however there may be new policies in place to ensure that you work.
For instance, they might take your private phone once you check in to ensure you're not spending all your work time browsing fakebook. There may be more surveillance, offices replaced by cubicles so that you get no privacy... Notice a pattern here, these are just the stuff they have already done, and will continue to do. Methods that doesn't work very well. Why would you wanna spend more time under such horrible conditions?
The important thing is that the government STFU, let specialized unions deal with this sort of stuff as not every policy fits every type of job. 4 day work weeks is probably great for office work. Limited hours can work great in settings were you go to one location, work then return back home nearby.
Even with unions it's important to make exceptions. If you're a truck driver working 4 day weeks and get delayed you don't wanna spend a long weekend out on the road doing nothing. Of course you should be able to drive the last 200 miles and get back home to your family, even if it's outside your working hours, and in doing so you should get paid overtime, plus 100% for every hour outside of office hours.
Firemen who practically live at the station doesn't actually work when resting, they're on standby. 9 hour workdays there is just dumb. Let them get paid for every hour they're at the station, on standby, and allow long shifts, including overnight shifts.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
going to a 4 day workweek to increase morale then immediately doing things like turning job sites into prisons to decrease morale seems too retarded even for normie corporations.
you'll see jobs that are *already* prisons going to a 4 day workweek and claiming it helps so darn much, sure, but i don't think "going to a 4 day workweek" is going to immediately be followed by "turning the job site into a prison to re-increase productivity".
I never said it would help "so darn much", in fact I even brought up some of the things that makes wage cucking like staying in a prison. You come here to re-state the problem, but provide no alternative solution.
what? i was agreeing with you on that front, just disagreeing with the doomer take of "this is actually going to make things even worse immediately instantly and every job will be a prison!"
the "so darn much" was aimed at the companies who currently run prison-like jobs who will claim that a 4 day workweek absolves them of all sins.
I see, then we're on the same page. How many days we work every week or what the wage is doesn't really matter much. The important thing is to have some freedom at work. Privacy matters. If you're White, nobody should have any reason to not trust you.
Many (((employers))) especially at big companies have definitely lost touch with reality, no understanding for what a productive worker actually needs to be productive. It's all about cost to (((them))). Some who doesn't wanna invest in better working conditions hire pajeets instead who will work for less and accept shittier conditions.
For instance, they might take your private phone once you check in to ensure you're not spending all your work time browsing fakebook. There may be more surveillance, offices replaced by cubicles so that you get no privacy... Notice a pattern here, these are just the stuff they have already done, and will continue to do. Methods that doesn't work very well. Why would you wanna spend more time under such horrible conditions?
The important thing is that the government STFU, let specialized unions deal with this sort of stuff as not every policy fits every type of job. 4 day work weeks is probably great for office work. Limited hours can work great in settings were you go to one location, work then return back home nearby.
Even with unions it's important to make exceptions. If you're a truck driver working 4 day weeks and get delayed you don't wanna spend a long weekend out on the road doing nothing. Of course you should be able to drive the last 200 miles and get back home to your family, even if it's outside your working hours, and in doing so you should get paid overtime, plus 100% for every hour outside of office hours.
Firemen who practically live at the station doesn't actually work when resting, they're on standby. 9 hour workdays there is just dumb. Let them get paid for every hour they're at the station, on standby, and allow long shifts, including overnight shifts.
you'll see jobs that are *already* prisons going to a 4 day workweek and claiming it helps so darn much, sure, but i don't think "going to a 4 day workweek" is going to immediately be followed by "turning the job site into a prison to re-increase productivity".
the "so darn much" was aimed at the companies who currently run prison-like jobs who will claim that a 4 day workweek absolves them of all sins.
Many (((employers))) especially at big companies have definitely lost touch with reality, no understanding for what a productive worker actually needs to be productive. It's all about cost to (((them))). Some who doesn't wanna invest in better working conditions hire pajeets instead who will work for less and accept shittier conditions.
That's unnecessary, just track the workers' output.