SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
The day is dawning on a four-day work week:
A true four-day workweek entails full-timers clocking about 30 hours instead of 40. There are many reasons why this is appealing today: families are struggling to cover child care in the absence of daycares and schools; workplaces are trying to reduce the number of employees congregating in offices each day; and millions of people have lost their jobs.
A shorter work week could allow parents to cobble together child care, allow workplaces to stagger attendance and, theoretically, allow the available work to be divided among more people who need employment.
The most progressive shorter work week entails no salary reductions. This sounds crazy, but it rests on peer-reviewed research into shorter work weeks, which finds workers can be as productive in 30 hours as they are in 40, because they waste less time and are better-rested.
30 hours is for pikers. The !Kung work about 20.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:30AM (6 children)
Middle management should be the most watched entity. Those people can destroy a company with a stroke of their pen by destroying and demotivating the workforce.
It may take years to groom a prospective workman, but only seconds in front of a "leadership" type to undo it all.
"My contribution is despised. There is no I in "team". What I do doesn't mean a thing. I'm just rocking the boat, re-inventing the wheel. And the guy wearing the tie will only hate me for trying to do it the way I think I have to do it to make it work.".
Just keep the tie guy happy, and make junk. Investors don't care if the thing works, they want to shake hands with men for whom private jets await.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:53AM (1 child)
You just described every workplace I've ever been in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @02:57AM
At the risk of a redundant mod, that has been my experience as well.
If you know how to do stuff, go independent.
If you don't, suck up until you do.
(Score: 5, Funny) by slap on Saturday June 06 2020, @04:28AM
[quote]There is no I in "team".[/quote]
But there are three U's in "Shut The Fuck Up".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 06 2020, @06:25AM (1 child)
TEAM, there is definitely an 'i' in it. Its in the a-hole.
Although, that joke works better on a more monospaced and horizontally-compressed font, like fixedsys or terminus.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Saturday June 06 2020, @11:32PM
There is no "I" in team, but there is a "me." Therefore the "team" must work harder to cater to "me."
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Saturday June 06 2020, @01:23PM
You’re right, there is far to much of that, especially in tech when you stick an MBA type in a leadership position.
On the other hand, there are managers who actually are technically competent, but have to spend a lot of effort getting some individual contributors to stop chasing squirrels, and start focusing on the objective without bruising their egos.
Middle managers do get a pass far too often, though. I’ll grant you that.