Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation.

• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not true. The electricians in my area work 7 hour days and the sheet metal workers get every other Friday off.

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• CompleteUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The mental gymnastics required to believe that hurt my brain.

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• Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not, really. It would be easy to implement at any company that makes a decent profit margin. Productivity goes up with shorter working hours, anyway.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Productivity goes up with shorter working hours, anyway.

    That is pretty much entirely untrue with blue collar jobs. I’m working from the start to the end of my shift—working less or more hours as I do depending on the season doesn’t change that. Pace stays about the same.

    It would be easy to implement at any company that makes a decent profit margin.

    Slower production isn’t just about profit margins–it’s also about fulfilling your customers needs

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My dipshit coworkers think trump will actually be good for unions. Mfers.

  Are y’all in a union? If so, you should see if you and your friends could maybe schedule an appointment with an organizer at your Local, who might be able to walk these chuds through it.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We are already unionized, which tbh makes it worse.

    It’s part of my position as union stewards duty to walk these chuds through it

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bummer…

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• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is the reason it wont work in blue collar settings that it’ll inflate prices of stuff too high? Possible making the country fall back in a global stance on pricing on exports, etc (not conpetitive)?

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not “won’t work”. Considerably harder. Big difference. There’s companies who have successfully implemented it in blue collar jobs.

    But more put simple, it’s that unlike white collar, output has a direct relationship with how many hours are worked, up to probably nearly 50, more or less depending on the job.

    So, in practice it turned out that slower service was one of the largest problems with it.

    Half of the benefit issue costs would go away with universal healthcare anyways

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      'preciate the edumacation. Definitely sounds like a harder problem to solve, good point on the universal healthcare, I’m sure that could save some money for companies, it’ll make employees happie regardless to not have to worry about paying doctor bills.

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