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tst123@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

81% of full-time workers want a 4-day work week – and they're willing to make sacrifices to get it

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81% of full-time workers want a 4-day work week – and they're willing to make sacrifices to get it

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tst123@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Workers want a flexible schedule — and a four-day work week is at the top of their wish list, according to a new survey from Bankrate.
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    Fewer vacation days? Heck no. If I wanted to burn vacation to get a 4 day week, I’d do it already.

    Longer commute? Heck no. WFH or I walk.

    Pay cut? Heck no. You KNOW that 99% of people will be just as productive with a 4 day work week as a 5 day, so why take less money for the same output?

    Taking a step back in career? Not like I’m shooting for being a VP or anything, so I guess I don’t care if I don’t get promoted to senior middle manager meeting organizer, so who cares on that one.

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      If neoliberalism didn’t completely decouple wages from productivity 50 years ago, workers would already be making the same wages for a ~3 day work week.

      So yes, they can absolute go fuck themselves. The only way a realignment will occur is if workers organize, unionize, and demand it at a national level.

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        What happened in 1974?

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          I was born. A great year indeed, for both Canada and therefore the world.

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            Ah, so that’s where all the surplus money from workers’ productivity has been going

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            Same time and place here too!

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          WTF happened in 1971?

          FTFY

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            Oh thanks, nice to see I’m not the only one who’s had that thought

            Edit: damn 1971 seems like the year that changed the world

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          The real question is what kept happening after about 1980 and the answer is John Hinckley Jr. missed.

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