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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•2 years agoI love to see this. One challenge that concerns me is that many people really need to be paid for all 5 days. The shorter week by itself isn’t enough.
minus-squareDojanlinkfedilinkEnglish29•2 years agoYou’ll have a lot more happy and productive workers if they all were given a livable wage and healthy work/life balance. Scientific management and all the bullshit it has spawned needs to die.
minus-squareSilvuslinkfedilink33•2 years agoTheir weekly pay stays the same, just a 32 hour week instead of 40.
minus-squareWookieMunsterlinkfedilink12•2 years agoWhich also begs the question, if we were paid on par with inflation, would we still need to work 40 hours as most people do?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 years agoThat’s actually the issue. Productivity increase didn’t go to the employees the past couple of decades, otherwise we’d have outpaced inflation
I love to see this. One challenge that concerns me is that many people really need to be paid for all 5 days. The shorter week by itself isn’t enough.
You’ll have a lot more happy and productive workers if they all were given a livable wage and healthy work/life balance.
Scientific management and all the bullshit it has spawned needs to die.
Their weekly pay stays the same, just a 32 hour week instead of 40.
Which also begs the question, if we were paid on par with inflation, would we still need to work 40 hours as most people do?
That’s actually the issue. Productivity increase didn’t go to the employees the past couple of decades, otherwise we’d have outpaced inflation
That’s what this is. Same pay as five day week.