Posted on 12/01/2022 8:24:22 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
That is absolutely true, that it works very well for some. There are jobs where there is no good reason to have to commute to some other location.
I have always felt that where it fits, do it.
And as a kid I thought the future was going to be great seeing George Jetson only work until 3:00 pm every day!
Certain jobs are impossible for remote work.
I create the intellectual product which linemen physically create.
I’m remote, all linemen are, obviously, not remote.
I think a lot of jobs are likely useless, or even deleterious.
It’s how certain companies can meet diversity quotas.
Who wants DeQuarious Jenkins engineering the distribution system?…
That’s why HR, low level admin, and phone people are almost all female and/or not white in engineering firms.
I say we go for 3 days a week.
I typically worked 70 to 80 hours a week before I retired (52 now). Guess how I was able to retire.
Yes. Not everyone can “code”. I not only don’t have a problem for those it works for, I think it should be available on some basis for anyone it can work for, as a life-work balance.
Keystroke loggers? No thanks!
“The trial instructed “employees to work 80% of their regularly scheduled hours in return for 100% of their pay and a pledge to deliver 100% of their standard output.””
Well, who on earth wouldn’t believe such a pledge?
I’ll go one better. I pledge to produce in three days what I did in five for the same pay.
Jeffrey Toobin WHOLEHEARTEDLY agrees....
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-zoom-masturbation
I used to work a weekend special at Oschner Medical Center in New Orleans. 16 on 8 off 16 on paid for 40. I was young and stupid then.
“””The trial instructed “employees to work 80% of their regularly scheduled hours in return for 100% of their pay and a pledge to deliver 100% of their standard output.””””
It does not take a mathematician to see that employees were only working at 80% during the five day week.
How nice, a 20% pay raise for the same amount of work.
Probably a bad idea & basically unfair as some types of jobs could not be done this way. Makes those not in this program work to pay for those reaping the benefits.
“part of a six-month pilot designed by the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global and professors at Boston College.”
So, a non-profit is advising companies on how to make a profit.
Who wouldn’t take advice from people with such relevant expertise?
The amount of money and opportunity cost saved is quite a lot.
I am at same pay, but to time driving, no gas, no vehicle wear & tear, no new work clothes, no woke chick hearing me talk to dudes, etc.
In essence, I make more money and have more time.
When “time is up”, I walk out of my room and go to the gym.
No drive home, no changing clothes, and I get there before the rush.
I think I agree with you. Technology and work and work-PRODUCT have changed a lot in my lifetime and your “industrial” connection is shorthand for a worker ACTUALLY producing a tangible product. It’s very unfortunate that today’s societal connection with ‘product’ is banging out stuff on a computer actual ‘product.’
This country doesn’t PRODUCE anything anymore except middleman reports, paperwork and overrated ‘coding’.
The world is about to find out about it with what Musk is doing with Twitter. Most of those leftist Tweeper (as they call themselves) leeches had no business pulling in a paycheck, IMO.
“Get money for sitting at home, doing the laundry.”
As long as the work is done what do you care what people do for a break after its done?
Better than commuting 2-3 hours every day to sit at a desk pretending to work most of the time. Many studies show average office workers only need a few hours a day to actually do the work and most of the time is basically on standby while stretching out the work they have.
You can now be on standby anywhere on the planet, finish your work at a faster pace and get more personal things done. Win-win for all except the few that had no life outside the office...
It was a significant improvement over a five day week.
The 1500 person workforce I was in, at Yuma Proving Ground, much preferred it.
I guess if someone is pretending to do a job, then they shouldn’t have one, or work for themselves.
Computerization and automation means less people are truly needed to do what needs to be done in our workplaces
Twitter is the example of something bloated that not only provides no value, it was providing the opposite of value. (Opinion of a non-Twitter user)
I think Musk is a whack-job, but...history is full of accomplished whack-jobs who did great things, and I think he is one of them.
Besides, he is torturing people who I regard as enemies, and he does seem genuinely concerned with freedom of speech.
Unless of course, you work for him, but...that should be the case in any way, IMO...
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