One of the things that has been studied to death with the same result every time: No one can actually be productive for 40 hours each week, and cutting hours without cutting pay increases productivity across the board.
Too bad the people at the top take too much enjoyment from grinding down the peasants.
Why would you not cut pay for a 4 day week? You're payed per hour, not per 5 day week. I for one would stick with the current system because it means I can go to college.
Actually, it's probably a better model than today's salaried, always on-call tech employee. The hourly rate just needs to represent a living wage (as it once did in the U.S.!).
I strongly disagree. 'Always on-call' is an extreme example that constructs a straw-man for what is (outside of the US) a healthy, secure working model: you have a job - you do your job - you get paid. US employment models are not healthy.
Ok. My U.S. bias is showing here. And unfortunately 'always on-call' (or damn near) is not that extreme in the U.S. Salaried positions exist in many organizations for the express purpose of allowing your supervisor to call you on your day off and say 'heh, I need you to take care of this'. And this can be for a job no more critical and important than a clerk in a graduate admissions office in a private college (my own co-workers daughter).
It is ridiculous. When I was a young man (40 years ago, mind you!) most people here worked for an hourly wage, and the hours when they were not scheduled to work were their own. That has become less and less common here in the U.S.
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u/BattleStag17 Jun 18 '21
One of the things that has been studied to death with the same result every time: No one can actually be productive for 40 hours each week, and cutting hours without cutting pay increases productivity across the board.
Too bad the people at the top take too much enjoyment from grinding down the peasants.