Actually we already have companies in Germany who are trying this approach. Of course it won't work with any kind of job. But for the ones I heard about it seems to be working out pretty well.
What really needs to happen is to lower the required work hours for salaried employees. The understanding being that there is any need for additional time to meet deadlines that would be the employee’s responsibility.
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Also, eliminate the idea of tracking paid time off.
Salary jobs have also been abused in quite a few countries, as some of these assholes think "salary" means "work an employee with stupid shit for 90 hours a week".
Okay, not 90, but you get the point.
I can see it for a few positions in some global companies, where different branches are working at different times, but FFS, hire one person to relay info instead of keeping 200 people on call for 4 more hours and screwing with the rest of their lives; slowly zombifying them.
Shorter hours weekly or daily mean less pay. I agree that a four day work week is great, I currently work one, however the cost of living is so high I am anxiously waiting for overtime. Lower the work week because we lowered the cost of living. In my mind that is the target. If less taxes were collected, in Canada, everyone would be better off. As it stands 25% of your check instantly goes to a single form of taxes. Less expenses and a shorter work week would be greatly beneficial if those two coincide.
A shorter work day means less pay if you get paid for each hour you work. For salaried workers it wouldn’t affect their pay, just give them more time at home.
For a salaried position, the salary remains the same while the hours decrease (and productivity usually increases). For an hourly worker, it's exactly that, hourly, so overall pay DOES decrease and the entire concept does break down. If you want to do what would basically be the same for hourly workers, you hire them for less hours but increase their pay to compensate. Now actually try to put that in practice and watch how well it works; the laws for part-time and over-time alone make it impossible.
That's why I stated reducing the cost of living. If each dollar increases in value the overall value simply goes up. Yes, hourly employees get the short end of the stick but they always do and this stick is overall beneficial rather then just a minimum wage hike that costs them rather then helps.
Okay I can see what you are saying with that, and that is true.. it's also true it would self correct if left alone... as it's also true we both know it would never be left alone.
Puts us in a pickle, doesn't it?
Well... not really, as if the will were ever mustered the actual correction would look a lot more like the French Revolution.... otherwise just fiddling about with imaginary numbers based off no basic standard is going to do nothing.
It's a lot like the global debt. The global debt is at $155 trillion, but who the fuck is that owed too? Mars? No.
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Also, eliminate the idea of tracking paid time off.
Okay, not 90, but you get the point.
I can see it for a few positions in some global companies, where different branches are working at different times, but FFS, hire one person to relay info instead of keeping 200 people on call for 4 more hours and screwing with the rest of their lives; slowly zombifying them.
Puts us in a pickle, doesn't it?
Well... not really, as if the will were ever mustered the actual correction would look a lot more like the French Revolution.... otherwise just fiddling about with imaginary numbers based off no basic standard is going to do nothing.
It's a lot like the global debt. The global debt is at $155 trillion, but who the fuck is that owed too? Mars? No.