Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoit shouldn’t be necessary to work us so hard for them to get their value out of us though.
we could be helping our families without throwing our lives away.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
That’s fine. Work as much as you want. Just expect your income to accompany your productivity.
My wife works 14 hours a week, if she wants more money then she doesn’t just take it from my account, she just goes and work more.
I put my money in stocks
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
if any of our productivities matched the money we are getting, we would be earning twice or thrice we currently do. this is the entire point.
Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I support that. Let’s have a meaningful movement. Not to decrease our working hours, but to increase our earnings compared to our productivity.
A part of my job is to calculate the income of the doctors at our hospital.
They earn their income based on their effort. If they do an easy thing, then they earn little money. If they do something more scarce, then they earn more money. They earn money based on how many patients they help. Not based on how many hours they are at the hospital.
I see vast differences between income between doctors. Many of them are fine with working few hours because they earn enough anyways. Other doctors aim at 40k euros income per month. They work a lot.
It’s personal choice.
The work reform movement must include the people that want to work a lot.
People that are satisfied with basic necessities (I’m sad for their children) are fine enough with simple tax and social transfers. They don’t even need to have a job (they are hated by people).
But the people that want to work, need to be paid for their efforts.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
so you are against reducing work hours? humans are not made to work so hard, but you can work more if you want to while also supporting other people to have that choice.
you are talking about doctors, who are notoriously well paid and privileged. things don’t usually go that well for everyone else, and we don’t get to choose how much work we put in nor if our pay matches expenses. as i said, its rare to even be able to save.
we also have many meaningful movements to do all of that on the left, but like any grassroots movement, it isn’t financed by big capital and needs people’s support and participation.