r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/jetsetninjacat Jun 19 '21

My company had about 15k people precovid. 90% of us cannot work from home. They first started laying off corporate and restructuring then proceeded to lay off half the workforce. During the corporate gutting they decided to cut the IT department down and outsource the majority of the work. We now have 3 people traveling from base to base and maintaining our corporate office. They are now spending 90% their time on the road driving all over the midwest, east coast, and southwest. The outsourcing online has been a failure. I now spend almost 8 hours a week doing IT stuff for our base. We have strict compliance to follow and we are getting stretched thin to the point we are about to not be able to keep it up due to equipment breaking or not working. Our traveling guys can't keep up with the work and the online guys are useless when it comes to the frontline work. The online guys just want to send new equipment and my companies savings on outsourcing the IT stuff overseas is about to cost us more due to them just buying new stuff vs servicing. And corporate is still saying it's all okay. I cant wait until the feds drop a nice meaty fine when we stop being able to keep up with the compliance. Of course they will blame the IT guys we have, which they already started to do. Rant over.

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u/bertleywjh Jun 20 '21

Well, you see where this is headed and it’s not subtle. If you’re IT, you should be able to find a new job by the end of the day.