Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.
  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip
    52·
    2 months ago

    while your productivity is more important to the owner class than your well being (which dead last on their list of priorities), it still isn’t as important as your obedience and abject submissiveness. they just don’t care if you would do better work if there were less of it. they’d rather you be too stressed and exhausted to think about pursuing other jobs, let alone have any time for it

  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
    16·
    2 months ago

    Well, why not. In my country 40% of the workforce works 32 hours or less. It’s not always financially attractive to work full time, for instance if you have children at home you can combine part time work with your partner and avoid paying high childcare bills.

  • WhatISawInTheWoods@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Yes, but then they’ll only pay you for 4 days…and you’ll probably lose any benefits you had…and things will continue to get more expensive.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      The four-day work week movement presumes that wages will increase so that life remains affordable. Mind you this was before the current era in which life isn’t affordable on a forty-hour workweek.

      Hopefully, when we collectively decide we’ve had enough, we’ll expand our distaste of slavery to cover all forms of bonded servitude.